CODEWITHSUNDEEP
asp.netweb-configauthorization
user2409235
user2409235

Reputation: 447

The configuration section cannot contain a CDATA or text element error in web.config file

I am getting this error while executing the application on server:

The configuration section cannot contain a CDATA or text element(web.config line 149).

The error lines are as follows:

<location path="admin">
   <system.web>
    <authorization>             
        <allow roles="Admin"/>
        <deny users="*"/>;
    </authorization>
   </system.web>
</location>

Please help me in this error.

Upvotes: 39

Views: 75930

Answers (9)

Husrat Mehmood
Husrat Mehmood

Reputation: 2310

This error occurs when you have a character or characters that are not allowed in your web.config file (like a semicolon, comma, etc.), or are missing a necessary character (like a missing apostrophe, assignment operator, etc.).

In your case, you have a semicolon at the end of this line:

<deny users="*"/>;

This semicolon is not allowed and is the reason you are getting that error.

Upvotes: 41

Andrei Iovan
Andrei Iovan

Reputation: 113

You may have unusual characters in you string like "\n" that you don't normally see in Visual Studio or NotePad++. Copy that in a simple text editor (like basic NotePad) and copy back to your file.

That fixed the issue for me.

Upvotes: -1

Ash
Ash

Reputation: 57

This error happens only when some wrong code or garbage code ingected mistakenly inside your config file like sometime mistakenly you missed to remove semicolon or wrong keyword inserted which is not accepted by config file you just need to read your file properly and after removing garbage code it will start working File is not showing compile time error but it will show runtime error like this.

Upvotes: 3

Kaushik Gayal
Kaushik Gayal

Reputation: 163

Avoid stray characters and spaces in web-config tags. I was doing everything right but my issue was I was having spaces which caused the issue.

Upvotes: 3

user1599615
user1599615

Reputation:

Usually this error comes when there is invalid syntax in web config file

Upvotes: 17

Dragonfiremalus
Dragonfiremalus

Reputation: 33

I had a similar error and it turned out I had to replace the spaces at the beginnings of lines with actual tabs. Don't know why, but that worked.

Upvotes: 0

Sunny
Sunny

Reputation: 11

Even I came across the same issue till I corrected some Semantic errors

Before:- " ( double quotes at the last)

After:- (double quotes at the last was removed)

After making the changes specflow worked fine for me.

Upvotes: 1

Renjish Alphonse
Renjish Alphonse

Reputation: 11

I've encountered this issue while copying the entire connection settings from Sticky Notes to the Machine.config file. I tried through the .config file, if there was any "S" characters available while saving the file. The real issue was as I stated above. Resolution:: Instead of copying the connection settings from Sticky Notes to the .config files, I've copied the settings to a "Notepad" and then copied to .config and IT WORKED !!!

Upvotes: 1

meol
meol

Reputation: 1033

Make sure there's no stray character in the configuration file. It can be as "harmless" as a misplaced "-->" or extra ." or anything really minor.

Upvotes: 34

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