Web.Config - Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions

Question

I am getting the error:

Module  IIS Web Core
Notification    Unknown
Handler Not yet determined
Error Code  0x80070005
Config Error    Cannot read configuration          


        

Answer 1

I was copying a live WordPress site to my local machine for editing/updating when this IIS error occurred. Changing permissions did nothing.

In my case, simply deleting the web.config did the trick.