I came across the solution of this genetic problem all across the internet and Stackoverflow, but none of them talk about the same after/on deployment. I also read this famous article . So, my website runs absolutely fine via VS 2010. However, I get this problem the moment I deploy my website using the copy tool of VS 2010.
There are three web.config
files in. 1- root, 2- Users folder, 3- accounts folder
. The tag exists in the web.config file in the root. The hierarchy of which looks like: domain.com / httpdocs / websitefolder / web.config
. In the websitefolder
there are Accounts
and Users
folders which further contain web.configs, but non of them have the tag.
What could possibly go wrong from the development machine to deployment? The error I am getting is on line:
Line 16: <authentication mode="Forms">
In the httpdocs, there are other projects with web.configs, can that be a problem? In that case, I also deleted their contents, but didn't help (but may be I should have done a better job? I don't know if this is what was required at all?).
Also, this is a website, so there's no bin or obj folder being created, none of that kind of issue. Please suggest, I am not able to figure out the problem. Thanks a lot.