The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid. (with a "catch"...)

Question

Another user in my organization put a folder with source code on a central server. I copied the source code to my local machine and when I try to run the application in VS on my local machine I get the following error:

HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error
The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.

Detailed Error Information:
Module     IIS Web Core
Notification       Unknown
Handler    Not yet determined
Error Code     0x80070005
Config Error       Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions
Config File    \\?\UNC\...\users\username\My Web Sites\Website1\web.config

The issue is with the file location of the problematic .config file:

\\?\UNC...\users\username\My Web Sites\Website1\web.config

This location does not exist on my local machine. I have confirmed with the other user that it does exist on his machine - so it appears that the application is referencing a file location that simply does not exist. My suspicion is that there is some kind of folder/cache that needs to be cleared out, but I don't know what to do in this situation. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Ended up actually finding a duplicate question with an answer regarding deleting an applicationhost.config file and then recreating it in VS:

HTTP error 500.19 - Cannot read configuration file