Setting up local IIS, 403 - Forbidden, full file permissions already

system · July 27, 2018, 4:28pm

I’m trying to browse my website from my local IIS server. As of now, when I try to run I get a "403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.
" error.

If I run the site with IIS Express on Visual Studio, the site comes up properly.

I don’t have a strong grasp of how to set up an IIS since I’m new to web development, so I appreciate any help.

Using:

web.config:

During fresh installation, I set the database type to SQL (Express) with the database credentials set up as a User

add name=“umbracoDbDSN” connectionString=“server=[ServerName];database=[DatabaseName];user id=[UserID];password=‘[Password]’” providerName=“System.Data.SqlClient”

IIS Settings:

Physical path points to the folder where the web.config and the rest off the installed Umbraco folders and files are
I’ve tried connecting as an application user and with my own computer’s administrator login
Application Pool is .NET 4.0 with Integrated Pipeline
Identity - ApplicationPoolIdentity
Bindings to the host name and IP address defined in my System32 host file
Anonymous Authentication enabled

Permissions:

The designated folder for the Site has full control to Everyone, SYSTEM, my administrator login, [computer]\Administrators, [computer]\IIS_IUSRS, and IIS AppPool[AppPoolName]
These permissions are just so I can try and get it to run locally and then narrowing down the permissions