ASP.NET 2.0 Application on IIS 5 Resulting in Error (aspnet_wp.exe (PID: XXXX) stopped unexpectedly.)

Question

After hosting an ASP.NET 2.0 web application on a windows 2000 server(IIS 5). I was unable to browse the web site.

The following error message was displayed on the b

Answer 1

I had the same problem and it didn't go away with aspnet_regiis with -u and -i and many others suggested here. But after I cleaned “%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files” folder and gave this folder read-write permissions to user from identity impersonate section in web.config, problem disappeared. It was not sufficient to give local ASPNET user those rights.