Setting Web Server Permissions

You can configure your Web server's permissions to limit how users view, run, and use your ASP pages. Notice that these Web server permissions apply to all users, and do not differentiate between user accounts. You can also configure your Web server to grant or deny access to specific computers and domains.

To let users run your ASP application, be sure to set up the following Web server permissions:

• Enable the Read permissions for virtual directories containing .asp files without scripts.
• Enable Read and Script permissions for virtual directories containing .asp and .htm files that contain scripts.
• Enable Read and Execute permissions for virtual directories containing both .asp and other executable files, such as .exe and .dll files, which require the Execute permission to run.

Once these general Web server permissions have been applied to the virtual directories, you can specify additional access limitations at the individual file level by either securing the ASP and HTML pages or using Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) access restrictions.

For More Information   Securing ASP and HTML Pages, in this chapter, introduces the concept of file-level access to Web pages. For more information on applying TCP/IP access restrictions, search for "Configuring SNMP Security" in MSDN Library Visual Studio 6.0.