Server Error in '/' Application. ASP.NET

Question

Greeting,

I developed a website using ASP.Net 3.5 and C#. It is working good with Visual Stdio 2010. I uploaded my website to my domain under the public folder.

First time I lunched my website for testing (http://wecoders.com/Habib_cuizine/Gallery.aspx) I would revive (Server Error in '/' Application.)

Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File --> >  > <configuration> >     <system.web> >         <customErrors mode="Off"/> >     </system.web> </configuration> 

Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.

> <!-- Web.Config Configuration File --> >  > <configuration> >     <system.web> >         <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" > defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/> >     </system.web> </configuration> 

To fix this error I added to the webConfig file inside tag:

> <customErrors mode="Off"/> 

After that when I lunch the website I would receive a new error as listed bellow:

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 35: ASP.NET to identify an incoming user.

Line 36:         --> Line 37:         <authentication mode="Windows" /> Line 38:         <!-- 

Line 39: The section enables configuration

Source File: \10.0.40.35\wecoders.com\public\habib_cuizine\web.config Line: 37

Please advice how to fix this error and how configure my website which developed using Visual Stdio 2010 to be published in the internet.

Regards,

Answer 1

The key information in this error is this line:

This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.

In IIS, you can have several applications, but they must be configured as an application. Generally, when you create a web project it maps directly to an IIS application.

Check with your hosting service on how to create an IIS application for your web app.

Edit - added If this is on your server, you can set this up yourself following the instructions in @Frazell Thomas's answer. He beat me to finding that link. To save yourself some reading, you should be able to focus in on the Creating Virtual Directories and Local Web Sites section.

Answer 2

• right-click virtual directory (e.g. MyVirtualDirectory)

• click convert to application.