Hi all, Just want to check if this is o.k.
Creating a class that generates static versions of some of my aspx pages (The ones that will hardly get updated). The content is in a database (In order to keep the site maintainable as it grows) and the aspx pages pulls this content for each section. I didn't want to use caching as I am hosted on a shared server and memory constraints will kick in. I am using caching for the few pages that are updated on a regular (every few days or every week) basis. The class has a method that takes three parameters (urlSource, htmlPageName, htmlPageLocation). It then generates the html page and places it where ever I specify. o.k enough of the rambling :-) As this class would need the ability to write to the hard drive I came across permission issues. I didn't want to enable write permissions on most of my folders within IIS as this is generally not a good idea (So I was going to use my local IIS to generate the html pages and then upload via ftp). I've been looking at ways of generating these pages on the server without enabling write permission within IIS (To prevent other people from using those permissions via the IUSR_MACHINENAME account). By giving the aspnet account write permissions to my chosen directorys it seems to allow my class to generate the html pages even though write permissions is unchecked within IIS. Can someone confirm that this is how it is supposed to work (I have been trying a few things so it may have affected the directories I am writing to)? And are there any security implications if I do things this way? Sorry for the rambling :-) just wanted to explain what I was trying to do. Thanks, John You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
