Hi -
Still trying to come up to speed with IIS, and have managed to deploy 3 different web apps on our server: One .NET 2.0, two different .NET 4.0.
The server runs Windows Server 2008 R2, Service Pack 1.
The apps were built in VS 2012 and deployed via "Web Deploy Package". These run as expected.
Now, the app that runs on .NET 2.0 was originally written in VB back in the day. We want to update it, so have ported all of the code to C# and built it on .NET 4.0. We created a Web Deploy Package and deployed. No problems there.
But for this app, when you click ANY of the configuration icons under either ASP.NET, IIS, or Management (ie., "Authentication"), a dialog pops up with this message:
There was an error while performing this operation.
Details:
Filename: \\?\C:\inetpub\wwwroot\AsicOP/WO1.3\web.config
Error: Cannot read configuration file
Did a lot of searching and found a lot of references to permissions problems. Unfortunately, this isn't the case with this guy - All our permissions seem to be working fine.
Also - If we build the new app to target .NET 2.0 and deploy it, it works fine - We don't get the "there was an error..." dialog.
We could just stick with 2.0, but think it'd be better if we could move forward.
Suggestions?
In advance, thanks!
Scott Osborn