Author: drew-m | Posted on: 8/7/2008 7:09:32 PM | Views : 321

This might be a newbie question, so I apologize in advance...  I have a website that I have created that has a dynamic page that displays news.  The user can cut and copy information from the web and paste it into a textbox control that is on the "Admin" page.  They click the submit button, and the text is written to a "news.txt" file on the root of the webserver. 

The display page just reads the content of the "news.txt" file and displays it in a label control. 

Everything works great on my local machine, but once I uploaded it to the webserver, I get this error:

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'd:\pathtowebserver\News.txt' is denied.
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath) at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode,
FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions op ...

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