Stupid web.config mistake: Sections must only appear once per config f...

Stupid web.config mistake: Sections must only appear once per config file

9/4/2010

Today’s stupid mistake comes to you via the web.config file in an ASP.NET 4 Web application projectAt runtime, when navigating to default.aspx, ASP.NET choked with this error message: Parser Error Message: Sections must only appear once per config file. See the help topic <location> for exceptions.

Source Error: Line 14: <location path="default.aspx"> Line 15: <system.web> Line 16: ...(read more).

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