I'm moving a PHP app from IIS7 to IIS8.5 on Win2012 R2. The app runs in its own application pool (MyPortal) and needs write permission on a sub-folder to create PDFs. So I assign Modify or Full Control permissions to IIS AppPool\MyPortal on the local machine, however the app is still unable to write to the folder. The only way I have found to allow it to do so is by giving Modify access to the local USERS group, which I'd rather not do (although I have no choice ATM).
The php-cgi.exe process is running under the MyPortal identity, but somehow isn't picking up the permissions I have assigned to the MyPortal user on the folder. The PHP process is doing a simple fopen command $file = fopen($tmp_filename,"w");
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I saw this similar post https://serverfault.com/questions/570033/iis-iusrs-and-defaultapppool-permissions-do-not-work which suggested it may be a permissions caching issue, solved by a reboot, but that's not worked in this instance.
Any suggestions as to what's wrong?