How to Set Folder Permissions for Staging Accounts

You must provide staging authentication accounts with Create, Read, Write, and Delete permissions on the destination folder when you stage Web content. If you specify a temporary storage folder when you create a business data project, you must also provide the staging authentication account with the same permissions on the temporary storage folder. The staging account is used to write new files and remove preexisting files. The Web content or business data project will fail if these permissions are not set.

Note

You must set these permissions on each Web server that is defined in the staging topology of your project.

Follow these steps to assign full permissions to the staging authentication account specified for your Web content staging project.

To assign full permissions to the Web content staging destination folder

  1. Click Start, click Run, type explorer, and then click OK.

  2. In Windows Explorer, move to the staging destination folder, for example:

    <drive:>\Inetpub\wwwroot\StarterSite

  3. Right-click the folder, for example, StarterSite, and then click Properties.

  4. In the <folder>Properties dialog box, on the Security tab, click Add.

  5. In the Enter the object names to select text box, type <Domain or Computer name>\<staging account>, and then click OK.

    Note

    Specify the destination-level, project-level, or default authentication account for the host server as appropriate.

  6. In the <folder>Properties dialog box, in the Groups or user names list, select the staging account you added in step 5.

  7. In the Permissions for <staging account> list, select Full Control in the Allow column. Click OK.

  8. In the Security dialog box, click Yes.

To assign full permissions to the business data temporary storage folder

  1. Click Start, click Run, type explorer, and then click OK.

  2. In Windows Explorer, move to the temporary storage folder that you have created, for example:

    <drive:>\Staging\Temp

  3. Right-click the folder, for example, Temp, and then click Properties.

  4. In the <folder>Properties dialog box, on the Security tab, click Add.

  5. In the Enter the object names to select text box, type <Domain or Computer name>\<staging account>, and then click OK.

    Note

    Specify the destination-level, project-level, or default authentication account for the host server as appropriate.

  6. In the <folder>Properties dialog box, in the Groups or user names list, select the staging account you added in step 5.

  7. In the Permissions for <staging account> list, select Full Control in the Allow column. Click OK.

  8. In the Security dialog box, click Yes.

See Also

Other Resources

How to Stage Web Content

How to Stage Business Data

Configuring Security for Commerce Server Staging