I am working on a website running Sitecore 6.3.1 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 instance.
Everything was working beautifully until I copied some static files (CSS, JS, images) from a ZIP archive provided by one of our frontend developers into C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\(website name)\Website\static.
Now, any time I try to access any of those static files (e.g., http://localhost/static/css/main.css), I get a 401.3 error (according to C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC2\u_ex110216.log).
The Sitecore application itself is working just fine, and the static files were perfectly accessible until I replaced them with the updated files.
According to every resource I could find on the subject, a 401.3 error indicates that the ACL for the requested resource is not permitting access to the IIS user account.
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I looked at the ACL for a file that is currently working (e.g.,
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\(website name)\Website\default.css), and it appears to be identical to that of the static files that are inaccessible. -
I checked the application pool settings for the Sitecore site, and the anonymous user is “IUSR”. Following the instructions in this thread, I gave the IUSR account read and execute permissions for the
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\(website name)\Website\staticdirectory and recursively applied it to all subfolders and files in that directory. No dice. -
Based on the suggestions offered in this thread, I tried removing the
staticdirectory entirely and recreating it and its subdirectories by hand so that they inherit permissions from the parentWebsitedirectory. However, the problem persisted.
What else can I try to resolve these 401.3 errors?