Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.. failed

Question

I am getting this error when calling a web service method which writes to a file on the local drive on Windows 2003.

"System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed."

I have done these steps:

• website runs in an appPool using the localSystem identity
• website impersonates a user in the admin group.
• the web service assembly has full trust
• the url of the web service has full trust in the machine's web.config.
• the folder's written to security has the impersonated user

So why is this web service still complaining about FileIOPermission? Fulltrust includes FileIOPermission.

Answer 1

After a lot of troubleshooting, it boiled down to a mistake I made in web.config where the location tag had a path of www.exampledomain.com but in IIS it was exampledomain.com!