Creation of the virtual directory failed issue whle opening the older version projects in VS2017[solved]
I attempted to load the new VS2015 project in VS2017, but it immediately failed to load.and i am getting below error popup
Creation of the virtual directory http://localhost:32999/
failed with the error: Filename: redirection.config
Error: Cannot read configuration file
there are two solution for this issue
1) Renaming applicationhost.config :
2) Copy config files to IISExpress directory
copy all files from
C:\Program Files\IIS Express\config\templates\PersonalWebServer
to
%userprofile%\Documents\IISExpress\config
any of above solution will resolve your problem..
Creation of the virtual directory http://localhost:32999/
failed with the error: Filename: redirection.config
Error: Cannot read configuration file
there are two solution for this issue
1) Renaming applicationhost.config :
- Close VS2017
- Go into folder %userprofile%\Documents\IISExpress\config
- Rename applicationhost.config
- Restart VS and load the solution/project
- VS should have recreated applicationhost.config, and project should load
2) Copy config files to IISExpress directory
copy all files from
C:\Program Files\IIS Express\config\templates\PersonalWebServer
to
%userprofile%\Documents\IISExpress\config
any of above solution will resolve your problem..
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