I'm trying to give the correct permissions to the user that Joomla (v1.6) runs as to enable uploading on a windows 2008 IIS7 box. I'm finding lots of conflicting responses on ye-ole internets.
When I go to the System Information -> Directory Permissions page in Joomla admin I can see that all directories are not writable. And, I've attempted the following.
I checked to make sure that - My www service runs as: NETWORK SERVICE My php-cgi.exe runs as: NETWORK SERVICE
I added the NETWORK SERVICE user to the root of the site (as a simple test) with full control and then went to advanced and had it propagate all permissions to sub-directories. None of the folders became writable from Joomla's point of view.
The only way to get the folders (and there are many) writable by Joomla, so far, has been to give the everyone user write access.
This is completely baffling me. I would really appreciate any help anyone can give!