Virtual Directory

[Neil]

I have set the ImageManager view, upload and delete paths to a virtual directory and followed the info on this page and this page

The virtual directory is running under a specific domain account, with full control given to the folder and the share. IIS is serving the images, and I can navigate through the directory structure of the virtual directory in IIS.  I am also able to save, rename and delete files in the folder while connected as the domain account.

When I open the image manager dialog, the images in the folder are not being populated in the dialog, nor is the upload button enabled.

I tested with a folder on my hard-drive and was able to create, modify and delete images via the image manager.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Rumen]

Hi Neil,

If this virtual folder points to a physical folder located on another PC then see these articles:

Uploading images and files to a Shared Drive
and
Using RadFileExplorer with physical and shared folder's paths.

Kind regards,
Rumen
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[Neil]

Thanks for the reply Rumen.  I read, and followed the info on both knowledge base documents with out success.

I have attached a screenshot that shows how the virtual directory is set up.  The account that the virtual directory is running under has full control.

Thanks!

[Neil]

File attached

[Rumen]

Hi Neil,

Can you please set full permissions for the everyone user for the Images folder?

You can also see whether the files in the ~/files/_global/images/htmlLibrary folder are accessible in the web page with the following C# code:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string resolvedPath = Server.MapPath("~/Images");
        Response.Write("The images folder resolves to: " + resolvedPath);
        foreach (string file in Directory.GetFiles(resolvedPath))
        {
            Response.Write("<br/>File: " + file);
        }
    }

For your convenience I have attached a video which demonstrates how to map a virtual folder that points to a shared drive and load its files in the Image manager of RadEditor Classic.

Kind regards,
Rumen
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[Neil]

Adding everyone did not work, but after some Googling we found a blog post by Rick Strahl which fixed the problem.  To determine the account that the application in running under we used <%= Environment.UserName %> - this returned ASPNET (IIS 5.1 - does not have appPools)

We then added a username and password to the machine.config so the app would run under an account that we specified and not the ASPNET account

C:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG

<processModel userName="domain\account" password="password" />

Hope this helps someone!

[Rumen]

Hi Neil,

Thank you for sharing this solution with the community. We do appreciate your help and I updated your Telerik points.

All the best,
Rumen
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[Rinken]

Rumen,
I am struggling with similar issue where RadEditor.ImageManager version 6.6.3.0 is not able to recognize Sub Application Virtual Directory pointing to Remote Share. I had tried the function you provided that reads Directory and Files under VD and with impersonation enabled for the location that houses RadEditor,  I was successfully able to see the files.

Is there a solution to this problem other than changing processModel that is done at application level and not location based. This would be a big security issue (not that it works on my end either).

I confirmed the VD setup and that works perfect. Also verified the same by embedding image that is pointing to a file in Sub Application Virtual Directory.

[Rumen]

Hi Rinken,

I am not sure whether this will solve the problem on our side, but impersonation could be enabled through the <identity> element in the web.config:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xh507fc5%28VS.71%29.aspx

You can set it in your web application's web.config file, instead of globally in your machine.config file.

Best regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team