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ChiliYago
ChiliYago

Reputation: 12329

Orchard Theme Install Fails

When downloading and running Orchard CMS 1.9.2 I am unable to install a Theme because of the following error.

"...server does not have write access to the '~/Modules' or '~/Themes' folder of the web site..."

This occurs when debugging via Visual Studio 2015 F5 on localhost using IIS Express and also if I deploy the same solution to Azure Web Sites.

How do I configure write access to those folders in both IIS Express and Azure web sites so I can continue testing?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 431

Answers (2)

rtpHarry
rtpHarry

Reputation: 13125

I think this is a known problem with the current edition of Orchard.

The Orchard Gallery is being upgraded and something is wrong with the feed url at the moment.

Update: This is what I was referring to Module updates not working any more.

Upvotes: 0

Szymon Seliga
Szymon Seliga

Reputation: 824

For IIS Express to have write access to those folder, you need to run Visual Studio as an Administrator. To run Visual Studio as an admin by default, check out this link.

For IIS you need to add grant permissions for the service account that is being used as the IIS application pool identity - as specified in the Orchard Doc's.

If your site is running under IIS, make sure you have granted read/write permissions to the ~/Themes folder under the root of your site for the service account that is being used as the IIS application pool identity. However, you should remove the write permissions on a production server.

For Azure Websites, simply check out Whats new for Windows Azure in Orchard 1 7 1

Upvotes: 2

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