Has this ever happened to you?
It did to me.
I was a broken man scurrying around my computer and the interwebs for a solution. finally, it was pointed out that the app pool name was changed. the app pool didn’t have access to write to the website folder.
“Unknown Account” has taken the old app pool’s place on the security tab for the folder.
All you need to do is remove that one and add your new IIS application pool to have access to read and write.
Your day should start getting better from there and on.
~ Be good. Don’t do bad shit. ~
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