HTTP 403 Forbidden: Access is denied ASP.NET Web API

Question

I\'m getting the following error when running our ASP.NET Web API project on our production server.

403 - Forbidden: Access is denied. You do not hav

Answer 1

You can follow this approach while deploying the application to production environment.

1. Publish the application in release mode.
2. Put your application in inetpub -- wwwroot folder because this folder have administrator rights.

Hopefully it should run.