how to allow user download file over web page on window server 2003

Question

I have a webpage deployment on iis6, window server 2003, and i want to allow user can download some file from webpage I store this file on the backup folder. I added NETWORK SERVICE user to the folder but I still can not download this file

Simple, i have a file and i want user can download this by link: http://www.aitapgdtrh.edu/Backup/SaoLuu13112012_1435.bak

it's shown the error: The page cannot be found

HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found. Internet Information Services (IIS)

Please help me config to download it, Thanks!

Answer 1

I found the answer for my question: It's:

Open IIS, right click, choose Properties. At group MIME type, click News,

Add:

Extension: .bak

MIME type: data/sql

then it's ok :)

Answer 2

HTTP 404 means that IIS cannot find the file specified by /Backup/SaoLuu13112012_1435.bak. I assume this is because it's located at C:\Backup and not in inetpub.

Request URLs are relative to the website root path, so /Backup/SaoLuu13112012_1435.bak will refer to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\aitapgdtrh.edu\Backup\SaoLuu13112012_1435.bak not C:\Backup\SaoLuu13112012_1435.bak.

You can reference locations outside of your website root path by using a virtual directory¹:

1. Open IIS
2. Browse to your website
3. Right click the root node
4. Click "New Virtual Directory"
5. Specify "Backup" as the Alias
6. Specify "C:\Backup" as Path
7. Assign read permissions only
8. Save the directory

¹You're allowing read access to the entire Backup directory to anonymous clients by doing this. For security, you may want to require authentication (either NTLM or Forms).

Answer 3

The easiest way is just write an ASP.Net script that uses System.Web.UI.WebControls FileUpload:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.fileupload.aspx