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I have an IIS installation with three websites. I'm using Zend PHP -- each site is being directed to it's own PHP.ini file. My problem is this -- whenever I go into IIS to make a change, or restart IIS, the server, or mess with any configuration settings at all, IIS is saving my changes to the:

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config file.

...but then it's is pulling an earlier configuration and IIS it referencing it as the config. This blows up the sites, tells me each site is trying to use the same configuration and gives an IIS error. I found that this file it's overwriting everything with is in the C:\InetPub\Temp\appPools[somename].tmp

This file is locked -- I can view it in a text editor, but can't make a change to it. It's taking the config in this file, then pushing it to another folder:

C:\InetPub\Temp\appPools[SiteFolder][site].config

I can take the config from applicationHost.config, and shove it into the site.config, and it fixes my problem -- but only until the next change is made...then that file gets overwritten again. I have many other servers with sites set up like this, and any changed made within IIS is written to applicationHost.config and properly referenced by IIS.

In IIS, if I view "CONFIGURATION: SEARCH CONFIGURATION", I pull up the applicationHost.config file and it shows this 'default configuration, and the path shows:

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config

But what it shows in IIS doesn't actually match what is actually in that file. If it wouldn't then everything would work. I'm sure this is confusing -- but if anyone can help lead me in the right direction, I'll really appreciate it :)

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  • Are you using a control panel of any kind that manages your IIS configuration? – Brock Hensley Jan 22 '14 at 22:51
  • The setup was done on a fresh Dell server which we have done many times. We have only ever made modifications to IIS right within IIS. Never used any kind of control panel. – user3224972 Jan 24 '14 at 16:44
  • Just to add -- I'm getting an error 'Cannot add duplicate collection entry of type 'APPLICATION' with combined key attributes 'fullPath, arguments' respectively set to "same thing" The issue is, there is some old stored config that DOES have the same entry for two sites -- IIS keeps referring to this file with any change, restart, reboot -- but the applicationHost.config file is correct and doesn't have the duplicates. Is there some way to specify which .config should be used so it will stop doing this? – user3224972 Jan 24 '14 at 18:20

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