I was attempting to set up a new ASP.NET 4.0 web on my dev machine, running Windows 7 and IIS 7. I ran into several errors, that I suspect others may encounter, and I had to search all over the web to find all the answers. So I’ve written this post in the hopes it saves some other dev the same headache I had!
So, first I created the new website and app pool identity, but when I hit the site for the first time, I got the following error:
HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error
The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.
After searching for solutions, I found most had to do with permissions to the web.config file or actual locking of sections of the web.config file. I confirmed that the app pool identity had permissions to the file, and there were no locking attributes in the file. So something else had to be the issue. Then I found some post on asp.net forum.
It turns out that ASP.NET had not been configured fully on my machine. So, according to one of the answers on the post, the solution is to do the following steps:
1. Open control panel
2. Click on “Programs and Features”
3. Click on ”Turn windows features on/off”
4. Locate ”Internet Information services IIS” in the pop up window and expand its node
5. Expand the ”World Wide Web Service” node
6. Expand “Application Development Features” node
7. Check the check box of”ASP.NET”
8. Then click ok button
9. You will need to restart your computer (go get a cup of coffee…)
After restarting, and hitting the site again, I got this new error:
HTTP Error 500.21 – Internal Server Error
Handler “PageHandlerFactory-Integrated” has a bad module“ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list
Another web search revealed that even though the step above enabled ASP.NET, it was not fully installed. To fix this problem basically, just open a command window and enter the command shown below (command is slightly different for 32-bit vs. 64-bit).
64-bit:
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i
32 bit:
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.21006\aspnet_regiis.exe -i
If you get a permissions error, you need to run the window as an administrator. To do this, go to start |run, and type ‘cmd’, but hit Ctrl-Shift-Enter, instead of just Enter.
After doing that, I hit the site again, and it worked! Hope this has helped!
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