VB-Web: Error 101 - allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level

I'm attempting to build website that was previously published using VS.NET 2005 and the .Net framework 2.0, the site is using a local sql server as the data source.

This copy i'm attempting to build is a copy i've made locally on the desktop to preserve the original as I'm going to be updating it, I did verify that there is not a second copy of the web.config file in my desktop copy as I'm aware that is usually a common problem that causes this error.

In any case, here's the error I'm receiving:

That error is pointing to this line in the code in the web.config file:

Any ideas, suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

re: VB-Web: Error 101 - allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level

Have you gone through into IIS and changed the virtual directory to be an application?

re: VB-Web: Error 101 - allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level

There is no IIS running on the local box, this is where i'm puzzled, I would simply go in to IIS and change the settings as the error says but I'm not running IIS locally which is where the DB is mounted.

Unless I'm completely missing something, I'm not sure where I should be changing these settings.

re: VB-Web: Error 101 - allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level

Well how can you run the web application without iis?

re: VB-Web: Error 101 - allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level

I added IIS right after posting, unfortunately this was not the system this app was developed on and I assumed IIS was there before actually looking.

After adding the site to IIS it's now working.

thanks