Today while trying to run a web application that a couple other developers and I are working on, I got the following error when trying to run the application. This error then pointed me to my web.config file.
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
After some digging and talking with another developer, turns out he’d made the Web Site into a full-blown Solution, but I was still trying to open it as a web site. As soon as I opened it up as a Solution (by opening the .sln file) the project built and ran just fine.
Hope it helps, if not, here are some other possible reasons:
- http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/23/118734.aspx
- http://blogs.msdn.com/robgruen/archive/2005/09/12/464196.aspx
- Google Search Results
Hi, i am also getting this error
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
i convert my 1.1 application in 2.0 wen i m trying to build the solution it shows this error.. i didn’t took the backup from converting wizard. because i copied 1.1 App in some other place then i convert it.. i read some solutions they said this is due to backup folder but i dont have any backup folder..
Please help if u can….
Another possible source of this is if (for some odd reason) you have a duplicate web.config file (that’s in a different folder in the same project).
We ran into this problem when we somehow got a copy of our working files/folders nested inside the root folder of our project. Removing the duplicate web.config fixed the problem (and we removed the rest of the nested files/folders after that).
Thanks to http://www.MikeDopp.net for finding this out!
– http://www.JoeLevi.com
Thank you. This post helped me in solving my problem. As soon as I opened my web site as a Solution (by opening the .sln file) the project built and ran just fine.
@Taraka Ravi:
Glad to be able to help!
– http://www.JoeLevi.com
can u pls be bit more specific.i’ve 5 folders,i mean 5 application folders,that are published.but im getting this error when i set this as a virtual directory.there are different web.config in each folders having different local settings.pls help
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Thanks Joe, its helped.