How to allow direct read access to App_Data folder?

Asked Aug 13 '11 at 06:56

Active Aug 13 '11 at 06:59

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I'm using the App_Data folder for uploaded images.

This is because each image is given an ID in the database, and stored in several formats.

I therefore create a directory with the ID as its name, and put all the formats inside it, like this:

App_Data/1/original.jpg
App_Data/1/thumbnail.jpg

And so forth.

This is done because I can delete the directory "1" without causing an application restart.

However I still want to show these images on my site, and App_Data cannot be read by default.

Is there anyway to grant read access to this folder ?

Until now I've been using a generic handler to serve the images, but that's quite an overhead

edited Aug 13 '11 at 06:59

John Saunders

asked Aug 13 '11 at 06:56

Steffen

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Please don't put things like "ASP:Net " in your titles. That's what tags are for. – John Saunders Aug 13 '11 at 06:59
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Have a look at this similar thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1519790/images-that-are-in-app-data-folder-not-shown-in-browser – Muhammad Akhtar Aug 13 '11 at 07:04
Good point John, sorry about that (And thanks for the edit). I checked your link Muhammad - seems this is not possible :-( – Steffen Aug 13 '11 at 18:17

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