Hi there,

The title says a lot already, I have a WINDOWS 2003 Server VPS, with Plesk and IIS installed. I am creating my webspaces with plesk, and to be honest I wouldn't know how else, anyway it is good to have a panel in my opinion. Well the problem is, I tried to install serveral PHP CMS'es on webspaces on that machine, and all are having problems with writing rights, it does not seem there are any writing rights at all for most of the spaces. Especially I figured it would not create and / or write config files.


Does anybody have an idea why this is happening and how I can resolve it?

Thanks in advance for your nice help
Greetz
zitwep

you can either give the username running the website (something like iweb_user...(i'd have to look it up)) write permissions or changing the ntfs permissions on the folder for the cms, i would opt for the second one as that seems to be safer...

This may help.
Login into your Plesk control panel as admin. Click on the "Client Name" link. Then click on the Domain Name you want to give permissions. Under "Hosting" category, you will find an icon "Web Directories". Hit that button. Here you will find all the folders which you have uploaded on the server of that particular domain. Hit on the folder name you want to give the permissions. You will find an icon with lock named as "Permissions". Click that. Now click on the link "Plesk IIS WP User (IWAM_plesk(default))" If it is showing the icon in gray color, the write permissions are disabled. Hit that link and it should show the small icon in red. Now you are ready to write any php script on your site.