I've been working on a ASP.NET project with a co-worker. We each have a
local copy running on localhost and we upload changes to a staging server.
Not ideal, but it's what we have for our set up right now.
He prefers VS.NET, I prefer MM Dreamweaver. Things were going fine until
recently when it became apparent that I need to run VS.NET too (even though
I'll stil use MM Dreamweaver for a lot of stuff).
So, at this point, we decided to clean everything out and get a fresh set of
files up on the staging server. That went smoothly and everything is working
fine. I then downloaded the complete set of project files to my root IIS
folder to work with in VS.NET. That works fine.
However, I can no longer run any ASPX projects on my localhost through IIS.
If I try to run our project, I get this error:
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Server Application Unavailable
with the log simply stating a 500 error.
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If I make a new project, and try to access it via it's sub folder, I get
this error:
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Parser Error Message: The XML file c:\inetpub\wwwroot\web.config could not
be loaded. Access to the path "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\web.config" is denied.
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Which makes me wonder if I have some sort of weird permission thing going
on.
The root directory is an application directory. ASP.NET user is an
administrator. I'm not sure what else to check.
The old site worked, the new one doesn't. I'm stumped. I've been googling a
bit and it seems the 500 error is pretty generic for a whole range of
problems. Any suggestions on where to start to figure out the specific issue
in my case?
-Darrel
