HTTP error 500.19 - Cannot read configuration file

Question

In one of my ASP.NET apps, all of a sudden I am unable to run it in Visual Studio 2013 due to the error displayed below. It appears that it is trying to open the web.config from

Answer 1

You can change the path for the web.config to its real path in applicationhost.config file. This file is located in /.vs/config folder.

After changing the path in this file, save it and restart the project, it solved my issue.

This is happening because I have different work stations, but the project is saving in different folders.