Thread: Access Denied Question

Would anyone have any insight into what this error is? Here is the background. This site is my staging site. Everything worked fine but we uploaded a new code base with some modifications to it and now this error wont allow me to access the site. The code changes work locally and really wouldnt be impactful here.

The only thing I can think of is this. Originally I had everything pre-compiled. When this was uploaded it was deleted first from the server and then ASPDNSF was freshly uploaded again without precompiling.

Code:

[UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))]

[FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'App_Licenses, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.]
   System.Reflection.Assembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection) +0
   System.Reflection.Assembly.nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection) +43
   System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection) +127
   System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(String assemblyString, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection) +142
   System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(String assemblyString) +28
   System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.LoadLicensesAssemblyIfExists() +8902544
   System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.Initialize() +495
   System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.InitializeBuildManager() +267
   System.Web.HttpRuntime.HostingInit(HostingEnvironmentFlags hostingFlags) +224

[HttpException (0x80004005): Could not load file or assembly 'App_Licenses, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.]
   System.Web.HttpRuntime.FirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +8890735
   System.Web.HttpRuntime.EnsureFirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +85
   System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestInternal(HttpWorkerRequest wr) +259

Did you give the ASP.NET or Network Service a read permission to your root? If you are compiling a project or your solution, sometimes, it's necessary to reset the site via IISRESET or touching the web.config (adding something and then removing the changes, then saving the web.config to automatically throw a reset request)