Re: .asp giving 404

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

On 12 April 2011 17:59, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:
> On a recent test I got FTP write access to a web server which had an
> ASP based site on it. I uploaded an ASP shell and tried to browse to
> it but got a 404. I uploaded it to a directory that had directory
> listing enabled and confirmed the file was there but again browsing to
> it gave a 404.

Just going to repeat the point, there was an ASP based site already
running so I know that ASP was setup correctly, the problem was the
.asp files I was uploading were being shown as 404's not plain text
and not parsed as script.

Robin


> I uploaded a text file and image and could browse to both of those fine.
>
> I also tried downloading an existing page and modifying that then
> re-uploading it but didn't have permission to overwrite the file.
>
> I vaguely remember something to do with file permissions having to be
> set correctly for ASP to run from years ago when I did some dev work
> in it but can't remember. Can someone tell me what was likely to have
> been going on and if there is any way around it given the access I
> had?
>
> Robin



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