IIS7 Sites get 401.2 when you go to them in a browser

August 9, 2011

The 401.2 error is: You are not authorized to view this page due to invalid authentication headers. If you are getting this error, and you just happen to have used shared configuration it may be an invalid password/encryption key file. I had this issue today, we replaced an IIS7 node and copied over the config [...]

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There’s been an error reading or processing the applicationhost.config file. Line number: 0

August 4, 2011

I had a server who decided it would be fun to spit out errors in the configuration files located under C:\InetPub\temp\AppPools. The error is: “<!– ERROR: There’s been an error reading or processing the applicationhost.config file. Line number: 0 Error message: Cannot read configuration file –>”. That’s not good, and of course an iisreset works [...]

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