How to set Allow Parent Paths in IIS Express Config

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Brian Boatright picture Brian Boatright · Jan 22, 2011 · Viewed 19.7k times · Source

I'm assuming this is possible in the applicationhost.config file but I did not see a parent paths setting.

How do you allow parent paths for a specific site running under IIS Express?

Answer

Flapper picture Flapper · Mar 21, 2011

Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\$your user name$\My Documents\IISExpress\config

Open applicationHost.config

Find the <system.webServer> section

Change the <asp> section to the following… By default it only had the cache and empty limits bits but feel free to adjust any parameters you don't want.

<asp 
     enableParentPaths="true" 
     bufferingOn="true" 
     errorsToNTLog="true" 
     appAllowDebugging="true" 
     appAllowClientDebug="true" 
     scriptErrorSentToBrowser="true">

     <session allowSessionState="true" />
     <cache diskTemplateCacheDirectory="%TEMP%\iisexpress\ASP Compiled Templates" />
     <limits />
</asp>

Save and restart iis express.

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