Hosting website on Azure VM - Windows Server 2016

Question

I am trying to host my website on Azure VM (OS is Windows Server 2016) and IIS 10.0. So here is what i did.

1. Installed iis using server Manager -> Add roles and features ...

2. Installed database Server (MySql) & .Net Framework 4x was already there.

3. Copied asp.net project on a physical path
4. Open IIS Manager -> Right-click Sites folder -> Add website
5. Gave site name, physical path and changed port to 93
6. Now whenever i try to browse, it gives me following error

HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error

...

Error Code 0x80070021 Config Error This configuration section cannot be used at this path. This happens when the section is locked at a parent level. Locking is either by default (overrideModeDefault="Deny"), or set explicitly by a location tag with overrideMode="Deny" or the legacy allowOverride="false". Config File
\?\C:\project.Web\web.config

Config Source: 41: 42: 43:

I have looked up this code in microsoft and this is what they had to say

Still I am not sure if this is the real problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

So I found my answer here

Windows Server 2016, IIS 10.0

• Server Manager -> Add roles and features
• In the roles section choose: Web Server Under Security sub-section choose everything (i also excluded digest, IP restrictions and URL authorization) Under Application Development choose .NET Extensibility 4.5, ASP.NET 4.5 and both ISAPI entries
• In the features section choose: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET 4.5