Issues with file permissions when migrating site between servers

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kiwimind's picture

Hi all,
I'm having difficulty migrating a site between windows servers. They are both Win2k3 running IIS6. I'm also running the Ionics Isapi Rewrite tool.
I can get the site migrated fine and up and working on the new server. From a site visitor perspective, it's all good.
From an admin perspective though, I'm having big issues with the permissions on files that have been added.
When removed from Drupal (6), the files are removed from the page, but not deleted from the file system. If I add a new file and remove it, then it works as expected, so something (or some permission) has been lost in the FTP transfer of the site.
I have tried adding IUSR to the files folder to ensure that that permission exists. I have also changed the Owner of all the files to IUSR, but this doesn't help either.
I'm hoping there is something simple that I'm missing. When comparing permissions between a newly added file and one that has been transferred over, there doesn't seem to be any difference.
Any ideas? I'm running out.
Thanks.

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mikew_is's picture

i have the same issues when doing on linux servers. I have tried chmod 777 default/files but still does not work. I keep getting errors and warnings on includes/file.inc on line and all different line numbers.

I am using imagecache on the site as well.

So interested in hearing if anyone replies to you.

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markjbrown's picture

There are a few articles I found on http://iis.net that may help you with a tool to assist in migrating from one IIS 6 machine to another.

Transferring from IIS6 to IIS6 using the IIS Migration Tool
http://forums.iis.net/p/1022050/1385551.aspx

Copy from IIS6 to IIS6 using MS Deploy tool
http://forums.iis.net/p/1150252/1873303.aspx

If you are migrating from IIS6 to IIS7 you'll want to use the Web Deploy tool.
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/427/migrate-a-web-site-from-iis-60-to-iis-7/

Hope that helps.

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