Some clients report that after uploading the files with fine-uploader they see the full path (e.g. C:\Temp\file.txt instead of file.txt). It is not the desired behavior, moreover I could never reproduce it on my working environment with the same version of software.
I guess it is something to do with the browser settings but cannot figure out which ones.
What is the way to disable such a behavior?
You will get this behavior with Internet Explorer set to the Medium security level, or a custom level with "Include local directory path when uploading files to a server" enabled.
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I am trying to use IIS Express 8 for a MVC site in VS2012. I am getting the following error whenever I attempt to create the site:
Filename:
\?\C:\Users\xxxxxx\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationHost.config
Error: Cannot write configuration file
Is there some way to force IIS Express to use a different location for the config & logs folders? I understand I can point to a different location when I am running iisexpress.exe from the command line, but I have no control over this when using Visual Studio.
Alternatively, has anyone got any suggestions why the error is happening? (Side note: My laptop is in a corporate environment which has some stupid encryption on the "Documents" folder, however I haven't had any problems with other software that saves to this location. I also have given the "Everyone" group full access to the folder.)
EDIT - After following the instructions at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/1286/iis-80-express-readme/ I still can't seem to get this working. I've tried the following:
Added HKCU\Software\Microsoft\IISExpress\CustomUserHome registry key pointing to my alternate directory
Added HKCU\Software\Microsoft\IISExpress\8.0\CustomUserHome registry key pointing to my alternate directory
Added HKLM\Software\Microsoft\IISExpress\CustomUserHome registry key pointing to my alternate directory
Added HKLM\Software\Microsoft\IISExpress\8.0\CustomUserHome registry key pointing to my alternate directory
Setting the %IIS_USER_HOME% environment variable pointing to my alternate directory.
Any other suggestions?
#Brad
I had your same problem just now. Removing the encryption on the IISExpress folder and the "Read Only" attribute solved it. In my company Documents is also encrypted, but I don't think removing that encryption from IISExpress would be a problem of any sort.
Hope this helps.
I had a very similar error message caused by a completely different problem.
The Error:
C:\VS\TFS_Projects\SomeSolution\SomeProject\SomeProject.csproj : error : Creation of the virtual directory http://localhost:55063/ failed with the error: Filename: \\?\C:\VS\TFS_Projects\SomeSolution.vs\config\applicationhost.config
Error: Cannot write configuration file due to insufficient permissions
More Details: I couldn't even open the project, as opening it would fail.
I could get prior changesets, and they would actually open fine, but if I got latest the projects couldn't be opened.
Solution: In my case, it turned out that when we changed TFS servers, someone had added the ".vs" folder to source control along with everything else. Under which, one developer had his applicationhost.config set up to run sites on a D:\ drive, while I had no such D:\ drive (well, it was a DVD drive.) I was able to get this working by finding a prior changeset with the un-altered applicationhost.config and replacing my local file. (I could have attempted to actually delete the folder, but I didn't go that route.)
Afterwards, we removed the ".vs" folder from source control.
(I put this solution here because it's where google landed me, so other people having this error message might find the above solutions don't fix it for them, and thus they might be having this problem.)
I'm also in a corporate environment with Encryption on the users folder, and removing encryption and removing the read only flags on everything in the IISExpress folder worked for me.
I'm using Visual Studio 2017 on Windows 10 and to fix this problem I had to disable the OneDrive setting "Save space and download files as you use them". After changing the setting my computer crashed but after rebooting I was then able to change SSL Enabled and everything worked.
For anyone googling this; this might be the same problem as this: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/878812/use-iis-express-is-broken-in-vs-2012-on-windows-8-1
You can check it by downloading Prcocess Monitor and run it with a filter for "Path" contains "\Documents\IISExpress\config" and then try to change the project to use IIS Express. If there is a CreateFile entry with the result 0xC0190052 as one of the last entries then this is the same issue.
After struggling with this, and verifying encryption and read-only attributes, and having them not work, my solution ended up being:
Navigate to the folder containing the IISExpress folder (in my case, it was in my OneDrive, not Documents folder)
Right click on IISExpress folder > Security tab > Advanced button
Change Owner to yourself, even if it already is
Check the "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" box
This may not appear until you've completed the Change owner dialog
Open the IISExpress folder
Right click on config folder > Security tab > Advanced button
Add a user > Add principal
Change location to local machine (and not a domain)
Enter the name NETWORK SERVICE and "Check Names"
Press OK to get back to the Advance Security dialog
Make sure to check "Replace all child object permission entries with inheritable permission entries from this object"
Worked in Windows 10 with IISExpress 10, for both VS 2013 and VS 2017.
C:\Users\xxxxxx\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationHost.config
Uncheck the read-only attribute from the file. It worked for me.
Adding the registry entry seemed to work, however, using environment variables in the registry entry did not. In my environment only our documents directory is redirected, so I simply wanted to move the IIS Express config directory up one level to the %USERPROFILE% directory. However, that did not work. IIS Express read the environment variable literally and of course failed to run.
I had the same issue before, running VisualStudio as Administrator (Run as Administrtor) resolved the issue.
I also had the problem and tried to fix it with setting the registry key in HKCU\Software\Microsoft which didn't work.
The error I made, was using HKCU because, since I do not have permissions to edit the registry under by normal account (which I use to run visual studio), I was using an administrative account. Then of course, HKCU was for that account.
So I just used HKEY_USERS\"my normal user's SID" instead and, when starting iisexpress.exe manually, it created its files at the location indicated. What still didn't work was using iisexpress from visual studio. It still seemed that VS didn't use the registry setting at all.
Finally I resorted in setting a non UNC path for Shell Folders\Personal and User Shell Folders\Personal in HKU\"my normal user's SID"\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ which did the trick.
I received the same error but in a different context. Opening a project (.csproj file) provided by another developer returned this error and failed to do anything:
Creating of the virtual directory http://localhost:58753/
failed with the error:
Filename: \?\C:\Users\xxxxx\Documents\Clients\xxx\Gen
II\xxx\,vs\config\applicationhost.config
Error: Cannot write configuration file
I removed both Encryption and the R/O attribute from the directory containing the project files and applied to all subfolders and files. Visual Studio can now read the project.
In my case I moved the folder to another location, so I had to edit the applicationhost.config file and changed the virtualdirectory entry to the new location. Removing encryption and setting read only off did not help. I imagine if I had just copied it instead of moving it, it would have happily continued working.
I am creating a CMS and want to know if its possible to download a folder, edit things and upload it back to the server without much user interaction.
For example just press a checkout button and the files are stored on your computer. after you are finished editing these files you press the checkin button. no selecting files again and such things.
Is it possible to access the filesystem and up/download files after a user gives you the permission?
In Firefox - yes, add-ons have full access to the hard drive and can download/upload files. See for example FireFTP, also code snippets.
In Chrome - no, extensions are not allowed to access the hard drive, other than limited access via File System API (which is a virtual file system actually). Best you can do is including a binary NPAPI plugin into your extension and making it write to disk. Users will see lots of scary warnings when installing this extension.
I'm currently working on laptops that go in Police Cars. They run an app called IMobile which is an extension of our CAD system, and allows them to do vehicle lookups, get more info on a call, etc.
The IMobile app is basically an IE overlay and it uses htm files that are on the local laptop. We've added in some simple VBScripts that do various tasks. Some common functions that are required for these tasks are in a VBscript called PoliceFunctions.vbs which is included in the same directory as all the other scripts. This method worked fine in previous versions of IE and Windows, however we're getting scripting errors in Windows 7 with IE8, specifically, 'ActiveX component can't create object: "Scripting.FileSystemObject"' and it references the functions script mentioned above.
If I set IE's settings to allow it to run ActiveX controls not marked as safe, the script runs fine, however I don't want do open a large security hole. I've tried adding localhost and the directory to the Trusted Sites list with no effect. I've tried re-registering SCRRUN.dll as mentioned in another post as well as wscript -regserver. And I've changed IE's settings to allow local Active Content with no success.
Anyone have any other ideas of how I can allow this script to run without opening a large security hole or having it nag the end user that his IE settings are going to bring about the apocolypse?
The explanation is long but explains how IE uses security zones to make trust decisions.
The URLAction of interest in this case is:
1201 Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe(URLACTION_ACTIVEX_OVERRIDE_OBJECT_SAFETY)
The default setting for this URLAction in the Local Machine zone is Prompt, and in all other zones it is Disable. Only if you change that setting to Enable will you bypass the prompt. You cannot use the Internet Control Panel to adjust the security settings for the Local Machine zone because only the other four zones are shown in this UI. To change the setting for the Local Machine zone, you can edit the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\0
Change the value for entry 1201 from 1 to 0
Write an ActiveX, implement IObejctSafety and wrap FSO methods in it. Note this is lying about the ActiveX's scripting safety but it is better than open to every unsafe ActiveX.
As the app "uses htm files that are on the local laptop" you could try to switch to a .hta application. For a quick test, just rename the *.html to .hta; if it 'works' add a suitable hta:application tag. To start
On a Website for our internal use i show links to local files and folders. the links are like this:
href="file://C:/example/"
href="file://C:/example/test.odt"
The Problem is now that the link to the directory does open in firefox itself with a useless directory listing. Useless because you can just see the files or open them but not copy, insert, delete...
The link to the file work normal and the file is opend by OpenOffice.
By changing the configuration of firefox and setting the following key to false I can open the directory in with explorer.exe but for the file I have to choose the right application.
network.protocol-handler.expose.file
Does someone know a way to get both to work like i want? Means that the Directory is shown by explorer.exe and all files are opened by the right application.
This can be by configuring Firefox or windows, changing the links, or even by writing a small program which opens all the file protocol correctly and will be used as protocol handler for the file protocol in firefox.
Thanks
Raffael
I did the above with small changes in Firefox 14.0.1, which works for me:
Create new boolean value network.protocol-handler.expose.file and set it to false
Create new boolean value network.protocol-handler.external.file and set it to true
Click on a link to a local folder.
In the following prompt, link to the explorer.exe in: C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Files are now open with the default application, folders are open with the Windows Explorer!
I know this is not quite what you want, but you might take a look at the "launchy" addon for firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/81/
Using this addon you can right click on a file link, go to "launchy" sub-menu, and tell it to open in explorer. This will browse directly to the folder as you want.
I want the same feature you want, however this "works" for now. I have asked the author of launchy to allow it to override the left-click behavior for certain protocols (so it would launch explorer with one click), but I don't have a response yet.
edit: Years later, I will post the solution I started using instead of Launchy:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/local-filesystem-links/
https://github.com/feinstaub/firefox_addon_local_filesystem_links
This scans for file:// links and makes them clickable. It does inject some HTML which can mess with formatting if you aren't careful, but it does the job.
In about:config You need to add a boolean value with the name network.protocol-handler.expose.file and set it to false and also create a string value with the name capability.policy.default.checkloaduri.enabled and set it to allAccess.
Now you will be able to choose C:\Windows\explorer.exe to open file links.
Tested in FF 19.0.2 in Windows 7.
Try this:
Create new boolean value with the name
network.protocol-handler.expose.file and set it to false
Create new boolean value with the name
network.protocol-handler.external.file and set it to true
Open link to a local directory and on the now appearing box, register the "file"-protocol permanently with the "file"-programm (1st entry).
There should now open the windows explorer.
You can deassociate the type "file" in the Firefox-settings (applications-tab).
After that, a link to a document (i.e. file:///x:\dir\file.doc) worked automatically for me (FF8.0).
Or You can use the Plugin "Local Filesystem Links" (DE version of the page) now.
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edit:
Link for EN version: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/local-filesystem-links/?src=search
Last few days i have been working on building an application to hide folders(thanks to the paid versions of such softwares). After a heavy googling I zeroed into some shell script that would first create a folder and then rename the folder to "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}". It would then hide this folder by using the command attrib -s -h Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}. The funda behind this is to make it a system folder and hide it. But if you would uncheck the Hide sytem folders in Folder option the control panel becomes visible. I would like to make this folder completely invisible as how the other folder protecting softwares do.
Can somebody throw some more light on this?
Thanks a ton...
Most folder hiding software works by implementing either an extension for Windows Explorer or a file system filter driver.
The first method means that certain items will not be visible when browsing folders in Windows via the UI, but will still be visible to other software and via the command prompt. For example, the Recycle Bin and Temporary Internet Files folders work this way.
The file system filter driver method proxies calls between Windows and the underlying file system and only allows certain requests through. This is similar to how virus scanners prevent access to infected files.
The general idea is that you hook the file system API's and filter out the file system entries you want to hide.
But JelloMonkey is right - this is rootkit behavior and you will get flagged as malicious by rootkit detectors for this kind of behavior. That's likely to get your entire directory quarantined or deleted.