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Written by:
Eric Rodwell
6/5/2009 1:00 PM
We are in the process of deploying a new corporate website with DotNetNuke as our back-end content management system. After I installed DotNetNuke, I wanted to install two additional applications underneath the DotNetNuke install. However, once I configured the applications in IIS7, I was unable to browse to either application due to a known ASP.NET bug, whereas web.config files cascade down so the application/virtual directory site is still loading the root DotNetNuke web.config file.
After searching the Internet, and with a bit of trial and error, I was able to successfully get both applications to run correctly by updating each of the application’s web.config files with the following:
Validated with IIS 7, SQL Server 2005, and DotNetNuke version 4.9.4.
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