Invalid application path

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IIS7 Windows 7 64bit  No matter what I do I can t seem to add an application to a web site   When I  Test settings  I get  Invalid application path    Any one have a guess as to what I could be doing wrong

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When I got this error it appeared to be due to a security setting. When I changed the "Connect As" property to an administrator then I no longer got the message.

Obviously this isn't a good solution for a production environment - one should probably grant the least privileges necessary for the user IIS is going to be using by default. I'll update this answer if I learn more.

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I was also getting this error  I found that it was because I had deleted the Default Application Pool  DefaultAppPool   Re-creating it fixed the problem  Drove me crazy for a few days   This error will appear if either the web application is mapped to a non-existent app-pool  or if that application pool is stopped

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Problem was installing iis manager after  net framework aspnet regiis had run  Run run aspnet regiis from x64  net framework directory   aspnet regiis -iru    From x64  net framework directory   IIS Manager can  39 t configure  NET Compilation on  NET 4 Applications

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even it was getting the above error  i found out that IIS was not registered on the server    registering the iis fixed the issue    Thanks

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I was able to correct the flaw by changing the file below      C  Windows System32 inetsrv config applicationHost config   In    lt application path     applicationPool  ASP NET v4 0  gt       lt virtualDirectory path     physicalPath  C  inetpub wwwroot Bonobo Git Server    gt   lt  application gt   lt application path   Bonobo Git Server  applicationPool  ASP NET v4 0  gt       lt virtualDirectory path     physicalPath  C  inetpub wwwroot Bonobo Git Server    gt   lt  application gt    For    lt application path     gt       lt virtualDirectory path     physicalPath  C  inetpub wwwroot     gt   lt  application gt   lt application path   Bonobo Git Server  applicationPool  ASP NET v4 0  gt       lt virtualDirectory path     physicalPath  C  inetpub wwwroot Bonobo Git Server    gt   lt  application gt

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I was also getting this error   The problem for me turned out to be that I had two separate websites on the machine  and I had not designated which address went to which website  To resolve this  go to IIS Manager -  Select Web Site -  Bindings -  Add    -  Enter the host name that you want to resolve for this website    Repeat for any other websites on the machine   HTH   Rick

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In my case I had virtual dir  When I accessed main WCF Service in main dir it was working fine but accessing WCF service in virtual dir was throwing an error  I had following code in web config for both main and virtual dir        lt security gt           lt requestFiltering gt               lt denyQueryStringSequences gt                   lt add sequence        gt               lt  denyQueryStringSequences gt           lt  requestFiltering gt       lt  security gt    by removing from web config in virtual dir it fixed it

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Go to your HTTP bindings in IIS  select your website  then on the right click on Bindings      Delete your SSL and your HTTP binding  Re-Add them   This usually fixes this for me

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I had a similar issue today  It was caused by skype  A recent update to skype had re-enabled port 80 and 443 as alternatives to incoming connections    H T   http   www codeproject com Questions 549157 unableplustoplusstartplusdebuggingplusonplustheplu  To disable  go to skype   options   Advanced   Connections  and uncheck  Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives to incoming connections

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I still haven   t find a solution  but find a workaround   You can manually change IIS configuration  in system32 intsrv config applicationHost config  Just manually create  copy-paste  section in  lt sites gt  and  lt location gt

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This worked for me    btw its not recommended    For my test app   I created a new application pool and changed its Identity to  NetworkService         More about App Pool Identities here http   www iis net learn manage configuring-security application-pool-identities and http   www iis net learn get-started planning-for-security understanding-built-in-user-and-group-accounts-in-iis  You have to make sure that  NetworkService  has rights on your application s physical path

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Try   Internet Information Services  IIS  Manager -  Default Web Site -  Click Error Pages properties and select Detail errors

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I eventually tracked this down to the Anonymous Authentication Credentials   I don t know what had changed  because this application used to work  but anyway  this is what I did  Click on the Application -  Authentication   Make sure Anonymous Authentication is enabled  it was  in my case   but also click on Edit    and change the anonymous user identity to  Application pool identity  not  Specific user    Making this change worked for me   Regards

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The error message might be a bug   I ignored it and everything worked for me     See Here  http   forums iis net t 1177952 aspx  and here http   forums iis net p 1182820 2000936 aspx

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I also had this error   My IIS Website has a Default Website with three  3  application directories below it   I had each of my 3 application directories configured correctly to use  NET Framework v2 0 in the Application Pools     However  the Default Website never was configured  I didn t think it was necessary since all of my apps were contained within it   My IIS Server s default configuration is  NET Framework v4 0  so I changed that to  NET v2 0     After I did that  I no longer received the same error message   Now  I see this     I hope this information helps others

[iis-7] Invalid application path

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