Sorry for posting this in here. I googled solutions but nothing worked. I have a Asp .net MVC 4 project which is a scraping project that uses phantomjs. Now I deployed it in shared windows plesk hosting. But the error says "This program is blocked by group policy". I suspected phantomjs is being blocked.
I attached a screenshot below.
From the stack trace, it appears that the error occurs when Selenium attempts to spawn a new process. Most likely spawning a process from a web app is not allowed by the hosting provider.
It seems that Selenium cant attempts to spawn a new process in hosting provider or you should connect as administrator :
if you are hosting in a specific domain click application pool->click on your domain(example.net)->advance setting ->Check you identity in process Model:you should login as administrator User..
if your website on default application pool you should click on Default Web Site->basic setting ->connect as : administrator User
This can be done by two ways.
1 - Add following code in WebConfig
<system.web>
<trust level="Full" />
</system.web>
2- Go to Tools > NuGet Package Manager > Manage NuGet Packages for Solution in Visual Studio Find “DotNetCompilerPlatform” and uninstall it
This answer I found on GoDaddy's community forums, but I thought it would be helpful to share in case it solves the issues for other hosting providers. If the post still exists, view it here => https://www.godaddy.com/community/Managing-Web-Hosting/Problem-with-Windows-Web-Hosting-quot-this-program-is-blocked/m-p/14513#M321
From User "mojosound"
These things need to happen:
- Web.config needs to be changed so that <trust level="Full" /> is added in the system.web section.
- Web.config needs to be changed so that the compilers are removed. The system.codedom needs to be empty. <system.codedom /> <!-- No compiling on server, GoDaddy blocks it. -->
- The settings in Visual Studio for publishing the website need to be changed to enable precompiling the website. The root cause of the issue is that GoDaddy does not allow compiling of the website on the server. This was the permission issue observed above. Once these were done the site came up fine.
After making these changes to the Web.Config and Publish settings, everything started working in the hosting environment.
