Server Error in '/' Application.
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Configuration Error
Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.

Source Error:


Line 23: "Forms", "Passport" and "None"
Line 24: -->
Line 25: <authentication mode="Windows" />
Line 26:
Line 27:


Source File: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Code Download\BegECom\Chapter02\WroxJokeShop\web.config Line: 25


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Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.0.3705.0; ASP.NET Version:1.0.3705.0

I think the error message says it all (thanks to those verbose ASP.NET error messages): You probably forgot to change the folder WroxJokeShop into a Virtual Directory.

TO make the change, open up the IIS manager, locate your server and then the folder WroxJokeShop, open it's Properties and then click the Create button to change the folder into a VD.

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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I hawe same problem, and i did create VD in IIS but it still doesn't work. My error says:

Error 1 It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS. E:\ZABAVA\KNJIGE - SAMIR\Begining ASP.NET.2.0\Begin\Chapter03\Samples\Web.Config 26

What is wrong with this?

Thnx! G.

Pardon me, but what is an IIS Manager? I installed IIS using the complex instructions in Appendix B of "ASP.NET 2.0 with C#", but still don't know what IIS Manager is. I am getting the MachineToApplication error described above. Thanks for any help...

IIS Manager is the IIS Snap-in for the MMC. Plainly put, it is how you administer IIS. You can bring up the console by going to Start --> Run --> Inetmgr

hth.

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If you are running XP you can get the IIS 6.0 manager here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

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Hi Joe,

As far as I know, that Manager allows you to manage an IIS 6 web server (on server 2003) from a Windows XP machine (that normally runs IIS 5.1)

I think what reblev needs is indeed a local instance of IIS and its own manager. If IIS is installed, typing inetmgr as Dough pointed out should do the trick. Otherwise, reblev needs to install IIS through the Add / Remove Software part of Windows.

Imar
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Yes it does, but it also allows easier management of multiple web sites on a local instance of IIS 5. And if you're going to migrate sites to IIS 6 on a server it's easier to have just one manager.

Of course everyone will be on IIS 7 soon and need a completely new manager :)

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Does it? Because you get the ability to easily create new web sites and stop / start one of them? If that's the case: interesting. Never tried that.

Imar

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Thanks for your help, Joe & Imar.

I did create the VD for Chapter 3/WroxUnited folder, but I am still getting this message, the same as PIAS did for Chapter 3. My project in VWD is for c://websites/begin/Chapter3. Plus I am getting other errors such as "file '~/site.master' was not found", "could not find 'mainContent' in the current master page or pages", "element 'news' is not a known element. This can occur if there is a compilation error in the Web site". The default.aspx page for Chapter 3 is not able to display in the browser, either.

I am not getting any such errors for the main WroxUnited project in c://websites/wroxunited, and this default.aspx page is displaying fine in the browser.

Signed, clueless