IIS not able to locate the web.config

Question

I have a deployed a web application in IIS. Which used to work without any issues. Recently i have shifted that web application to another machine, Here is the problem. Once i s

Answer 1

I know it's old post but I resolved the same issue as follows:

If you are using TFS and you are getting this problem then Reason is ".vs" file is not excluded from commit.

Because of that ".vs\config\applicationhost.config" gets the local version of another user/Developer.

To Solve the error, First open that file Update Physical path inside "" xml tag.

Also ask user to exclude this folder from TFS to prevent future issues.