web.config causing problems with iis

Question

Up until now I have only worked with this web.config within Visual Studio. However I am now trying to publish my website to IIS and there are errors associated with my web.config. It seems that it crashes on configuration data for a module.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<configuration>
    <system.web>
      <compilation targetFramework="4.5" />
      <httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" />
    </system.web>
  <phpNet>
    <classLibrary>
      <add assembly="php_mcrypt.mng, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=4ef6ed87c53048a3" section="mcrypt" />
      <add assembly="php_curl.mng, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=4ef6ed87c53048a3" section="curl" />
    </classLibrary>
    <scriptLibrary/>
  </phpNet>

</configuration>

error:

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This screenshot is when trying to double click on any "Feature" within the "Feature View" of IIS. However if i just hit the website via a browser the error is the same:

The configuration section 'phpNet' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration

phpNet is for Phalanger, and the extension should be installed but I do not know how to check that. Like I said though, this web.config and phalanger worked fine within visual studio so Im not sure whats wrong. Especially since the installer did install the samples in iis.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 13 '12 at 08:55

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You are missing configuration section definition

<configSections>
<section name="phpNet" type="PHP.Core.ConfigurationSectionHandler, PhpNetCore, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0a8e8c4c76728c71" />

Without this, .NET does not know the 'phpNet' configuration section.

Also this means, you don't have Phalanger installed using setup.exe. Here are some information about using Phalanger without proper installation (important is the part about configuration) http://www.php-compiler.net/blog/2011/installation-free-phalanger-web

answered Nov 13 '12 at 08:55

Jakub Míšek

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What about the answer I posted? Because once i started using the "PhalangerAppPool" things worked. – owen gerig Nov 13 '12 at 15:15
I also ended up moving these statments to the master.config in the .net/frameworks/v4/config directory – owen gerig Nov 13 '12 at 20:10

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

I found this posting http://crdevelopment.net/2012/06/12/fixing-iis-error-the-configuration-section-system-web-extensions-cannot-be-read-because-it-is-missing-a-section-declaration/

which led me to check the application pools. enter image description here

At which point I noticed there where multiples. I selected the phalangerAppPool and that got rid of my error, but brought about a new one.

Handler “PageHandlerFactory-Integrated” has a bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list

However that error was alot easier to resolve (fix)

web.config causing problems with iis

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