I am trying to test my Web Service on an IIS instance on my local machine before I promote to a windows server 2008 environment. I get this when I attempt to browse to the service. I have created a custom application pool that this service will run under btw. So I am guessing that that application ID does not have permissions to access that folder etc... I get this little detail btw...
"This error occurs when there is a problem reading the configuration file for the Web server or Web application. In some cases, the event logs may contain more information about what caused this error."
I am thinking I need to give that application identity permissions, but I am unsure how to accomplish this.
Is there another way to get this done?
Not sure whether this is too late for you.
The IIS website is run by either USERS or IIS_IUSRS.
Try to do following:
computername\IIS_IUSRS or computername\USERS with Read permission.