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I came across another issue with trying to get RavenDB working through IIS. When the process started up I got the error message “Cannot access file, the file is locked or in use”.

The stack trace looked like this:

[EsentFileAccessDeniedException: Cannot access file, the file is locked or in use]
   Microsoft.Isam.Esent.Interop.Api.Check(Int32 err) in C:\Work\ravendb\SharedLibs\Sources\managedesent-61618\EsentInterop\Api.cs:2736
   Raven.Storage.Esent.TransactionalStorage.Initialize(IUuidGenerator uuidGenerator) in c:\Builds\RavenDB-Stable\Raven.Storage.Esent\TransactionalStorage.cs:205

[InvalidOperationException: Could not open transactional storage: C:\inetpub\ravendb\Data\Data]
   Raven.Storage.Esent.TransactionalStorage.Initialize(IUuidGenerator uuidGenerator) in c:\Builds\RavenDB-Stable\Raven.Storage.Esent\TransactionalStorage.cs:220
   Raven.Database.DocumentDatabase..ctor(InMemoryRavenConfiguration configuration) in c:\Builds\RavenDB-Stable\Raven.Database\DocumentDatabase.cs:185
   Raven.Web.ForwardToRavenRespondersFactory.Init() in c:\Builds\RavenDB-Stable\Raven.Web\ForwardToRavenRespondersFactory.cs:84
   Raven.Web.RavenDbStartupAndShutdownModule.b__0(Object sender, EventArgs args) in c:\Builds\RavenDB-Stable\Raven.Web\BootStrapper.cs:13
   System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +80
   System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +270M

It turns out that I hadn’t given the account IIS was using access to the directory… Or rather, I had given access, I just didn’t tell IIS about the account so it was using the default account.

To fix the issue:

• Go into the Application Pools section of IIS.
• Click the Application pool used by the RavenDB site
  
  
• Press “Advanced Settings…” on the right side of the dialog.
• Ensure the correct account is set up for the “Identity” in the “Process Model” section.
  
  
• Once you’ve set up the correct user, press "OK" for each of the dialogs and everything should be ready.

While trying to get RavenDB working in IIS I ran into a problem. I got the following error from IIS

HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error

The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.

Module	IIS Web Core
Notification	BeginRequest
Handler	Not yet determined
Error Code	0x80070021
Config Error	This configuration section cannot be used at this path. This happens when the section is locked at a parent level. Locking is either by default (overrideModeDefault="Deny"), or set explicitly by a location tag with overrideMode="Deny" or the legacy allowOverride="false".
Config File	\\?\C:\inetpub\ravendb\web.config

Config Source

    6: 	<system.webServer>
    7: 		<handlers>
    8: 			<add name="All" path="*" verb="*" type="Raven.Web.ForwardToRavenRespondersFactory, Raven.Web"/>

I’ve ignored some of the less interesting parts of the error message.

This can be fixed in IIS itself.

• Open up IIS, click on the top node of the tree on the left side (the one labelled with the machine name)
• Then double-click on the item in the centre pane marked “Feature Delegation”
  
  
• Then find the entry marked “Handler Mappings” and set the delegation to “Read/Write” using the action links on the right side of the dialog.
  
  

When this is done the error moves on to the next part of the web.config

Config Source

    9: 		</handlers>
   10: 		<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">
   11: 			<remove name="WebDAVModule" />

At this point you have to also set the “Modules” to “Read/Write” also

Once that was set, I was good to go.