"When the site administrator has locked access to this section using <location allowOverride="false"> from an inherited configuration file."

c# asp.net asp.net-mvc web-config machine.config
Cleon picture Cleon · May 21, 2015 · Viewed 17.5k times · Source

So I get this error when publishing my ASP.NET MVC application. It works fine locally:

" This happens when the site administrator has locked access to this section using <location allowOverride="false"> from an inherited configuration file.

I had this error before that I fixed:

"System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed."

I used the following code in my Web.config file:

<securityPolicy>
  <trustLevel name="Full" policyFile="internal"/>
</securityPolicy>

So does anyone know how I can change my: "<location allowOverride="false"> to true? Cause that must be the problem.

Answer

Peter Hahndorf picture Peter Hahndorf · May 21, 2015

In IIS Manager, select the server node and in the bottom section Feature Delegation. Find your feature and change it to Read/Write.

You have to be an administrator to change this setting.

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