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Alma
Alma

Reputation: 4420

Get an error when using Windows Authentication in MVC5

I have a windows Authentication for My MVC5 projec. It is working locally but when I publish it to the server, I get this error:

  It is an error to use a section registered as  allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' 
beyond application level. 
 This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured 
   as an application in IIS.

I have this line in my web.config

<authentication mode="Windows"/>

but in MVC there is another config file under the "view" as well. I also added to that too but same error. Any thought?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 319

Answers (2)

Jacob Roberts
Jacob Roberts

Reputation: 1825

This is one of those errors that really doesn't have a fix. You can try deleting all of your bin/obj files and see if that works. You can turn off the feature that pre-builds the view, which will probably resolve your issue but you lose other goodies like catching compile time exceptions on your views. You can stop the pre-publish builds on your view by editing Web.config like:

<PropertyGroup> 
    <MvcBuildViews>false</MvcBuildViews> 
</PropertyGroup>

An alternative to the PropertyGroup is, (VS2013) right click your project -> publish -> Settings -> (uncheck) Precompile during publishing. As with the previous mentioned, you will lose compile time exceptions on your views.

*And remove the change you added to the Web.config in your views folder.

Just for clarity, check out this SO discussion MVCBuildViews not working correctly

**Note: these are not fixes, just workarounds that may or may not work for you.

Upvotes: 1

IndieTech Solutions
IndieTech Solutions

Reputation: 2539

Many reasons why you received that error message , but it's good you mentioned that is related to the production environment and no locally. I would suggest two things:

  1. Most likely you have nested web.config files.(Double check that)
  2. Did you check to make sure the folder was configured as an application? (In your IIS if you have access to it)

Upvotes: 0

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