Server Error in '/dotnetnuke' Application.

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Failed to access IIS metabase.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironmentException: Failed to access IIS metabase.

The process account used to run ASP.NET must have read access to the IIS metabase (e.g. IIS://servername/W3SVC). For information on modifying metabase permissions, please see http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=267904.

Source Error:

[HostingEnvironmentException: Failed to access IIS metabase.]
   System.Web.Configuration.MetabaseServerConfig.MapPathCaching(String siteID, VirtualPath path) +3591442
   System.Web.Configuration.MetabaseServerConfig.System.Web.Configuration.IConfigMapPath2.MapPath(String siteID, VirtualPath vpath) +9
   System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.MapPathActual(VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean permitNull) +169
   System.Web.CachedPathData.GetConfigPathData(String configPath) +389
   System.Web.CachedPathData.GetConfigPathData(String configPath) +243
   System.Web.CachedPathData.GetApplicationPathData() +68
   System.Web.CachedPathData.GetVirtualPathData(VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean permitPathsOutsideApp) +3536567
   System.Web.Configuration.RuntimeConfig.GetLKGRuntimeConfig(VirtualPath path) +189

rex,

To quickly add to Mitchel's reply - generally when I see this error it is because IIS was installed/configured AFTER ASP.NET was installed - so the re-registering steps above are just the trick needed to get things back in order and IIS & ASP.NET playing nicely with each other again.

Take care,

Ian

Hey Rex,

The next step for you will probably be to make sure all of the proper IIS stuff is installed. Here is a blog post that talks about it: http://www.snowball.be/DNN+And+IIS7+How+To+Get+It+To+Work.aspx. And here is another one: http://weblogs.asp.net/christoc/archive/2007/01/04/dnn-daily-tip-debugging-dotnetnuke-development-on-windows-vista-and-visual-studio-2005.aspx.

Also, I would download DNN 5.1.1 from codeplex.com: http://dotnetnuke.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=30778

Hope that helps,

Ian