WordPress IIS7 IUSR File Permissions on Windows 2003

Been having some issues with WordPress on IIS7 windows 2003 for a while now and think I finally got it solved, thought I’d post the info here for others to see, as I had a hard time finding this info myself anywhere else, not even the WordPress website.

This is what I found after a lot of playing around, if you see any issues with this or have any feedback please let me know below.

On the wp-content folder I applied the following permissions.

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-content
- IUSR with following permissions

• Traverse folder / execute file
• List folder / read data
• Read attributes
• Read extended attributes
• Create files / write data
• Create folders / append data
• Write attributes
• Write extended attributes
• Delete subfolders and files
• Delete
• Read permissions

I also have the following groups and users on there

• IIS_IUSRS
• Trustedinstaller
• SYSTEM
• Administrators
• Users
• CREATOR OWNER

Here are the steps I followed

• Right click wp-content
• Properties
• Security tab
• Advanced button
• Change permissions button
• Add button
• Advanced button
• Find now button
• Locate IUSR and double click
• OK button
• Check box Allow Full control
• Uncheck the boxes; Full control, Take ownership, Change permissions
• Click OK button
• Check box “Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object”
• Click OK button
• Click Yes when asked if you want to continue
• Click OK button
• Click OK button

I’m not making anything in the root writable, like wp-config etc. I change that manually or as a one off.