500.19 - Internal Server Error - The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid

Question

Before everyone reads this, I just want to say that i know that there are related threads out there, but I have either tried them or do not understand. With that being said here

Answer 1

I had this error with Visual Studion 2019, my project was NopCommerce 4.30 which is an ASP.Net Core 3.1 project. I added page "gouden-munten-buitenland" to be the starting page and I only got the error when going to that page. Turned out that Visual Studio generated an invalid applicationHost.config :

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and

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I removed the nodes identified as 'WRONG' and then it worked.