HTTP 403 Forbidden: Access is denied ASP.NET Web API

Question

I\'m getting the following error when running our ASP.NET Web API project on our production server.

403 - Forbidden: Access is denied. You do not hav

Answer 1

In case it helps anyone my issue was my publish options set to "Allow precompiled site to be updatable" and I was missing the file "PrecompiledApp.config" in my deployed API.