Unrecognized configuration section 'appSettings'

[Winshent]

I receive the following message which i cant figure out what is the
problem. A copy of my web.config file is below it..

Any ideas?



Server Error in '/myWebApp' Application.
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Configuration Error
Description: An error occurred during the processing of a
configuration file required to service this request. Please review the
specific error details below and modify your configuration file
appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Unrecognized configuration section 'appSettings'

Source Error:


Line 3:
Line 4: <system.web>
Line 5: <appSettings>
Line 6:
Line 7: <add key="ConnectionString"; value="data
source=""6S2CKPBZX09S\MyWebApp""; user id=sa; persist security
info=False; initial catalog=SPC" />


Source File: C:\MyWebApp\web.config Line: 5


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Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.573;
ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.573

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Web.Config file below
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>

<system.web>
<appSettings>

<add key="ConnectionString"; value="data
source=""6S2CKPBZX09S\MyWebApp""; user id=sa; persist security
info=False; initial catalog=SPC" />

<!--
<add key="ConnectionString" value="Provider=Microsoft.sqlserver;
Data Source=C:\WorkFolder\spc.mdb" />
-->

</appSettings>


<!-- DYNAMIC DEBUG COMPILATION
Set compilation debug="true" to insert debugging symbols
(.pdb information)
into the compiled page. Because this creates a larger file
that executes
more slowly, you should set this value to true only when
debugging and to
false at all other times. For more information, refer to the
documentation about
debugging ASP.NET files.
-->
<compilation defaultLanguage="vb" debug="true" />

<!-- CUSTOM ERROR MESSAGES
Set customErrors mode="On" or "RemoteOnly" to enable custom
error messages, "Off" to disable.
Add <error> tags for each of the errors you want to handle.

"On" Always display custom (friendly) messages.
"Off" Always display detailed ASP.NET error information.
"RemoteOnly" Display custom (friendly) messages only to
users not running
on the local Web server. This setting is recommended for
security purposes, so
that you do not display application detail information to
remote clients.
-->

<!--
<error statusCode="500" redirect="error500.aspx"/> this can be
used to set up custom error pages
<error statusCode="404" redirect="error404.aspx"/>

-->

<customErrors mode="Off" />

<!-- AUTHENTICATION
This section sets the authentication policies of the
application. Possible modes are "Windows",
"Forms", "Passport" and "None"

"None" No authentication is performed.
"Windows" IIS performs authentication (Basic, Digest, or
Integrated Windows) according to
its settings for the application. Anonymous access must be
disabled in IIS.
"Forms" You provide a custom form (Web page) for users to
enter their credentials, and then
you authenticate them in your application. A user
credential token is stored in a cookie.
"Passport" Authentication is performed via a centralized
authentication service provided
by Microsoft that offers a single logon and core profile
services for member sites.
-->
<authentication mode="Windows" />


<!-- AUTHORIZATION
This section sets the authorization policies of the
application. You can allow or deny access
to application resources by user or role. Wildcards: "*"
mean everyone, "?" means anonymous
(unauthenticated) users.
-->
<authorization>
<allow users="*" /> <!-- Allow all users -->

<!-- <allow users="[comma separated list of users]"
roles="[comma separated list of roles]"/>
<deny users="[comma separated list of users]"
roles="[comma separated list of roles]"/>
-->
</authorization>

<!-- APPLICATION-LEVEL TRACE LOGGING
Application-level tracing enables trace log output for every
page within an application.
Set trace enabled="true" to enable application trace
logging. If pageOutput="true", the
trace information will be displayed at the bottom of each
page. Otherwise, you can view the
application trace log by browsing the "trace.axd" page from
your web application
root.
-->
<trace enabled="false" requestLimit="10" pageOutput="false"
traceMode="SortByTime" localOnly="true" />


<!-- SESSION STATE SETTINGS
By default ASP.NET uses cookies to identify which requests
belong to a particular session.
If cookies are not available, a session can be tracked by
adding a session identifier to the URL.
To disable cookies, set sessionState cookieless="true".
-->
<sessionState>
mode="InProc"
stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424"
sqlConnectionString="data
source=127.0.0.1;Trusted_Connection=yes"
cookieless="false"
timeout="20"
</sessionState>

<!-- GLOBALIZATION
This section sets the globalization settings of the
application.
-->
<globalization requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" />

</system.web>

</configuration>

 

[John Saunders]

I receive the following message which i cant figure out what is the
problem. A copy of my web.config file is below it..

<appSettings> isn't part of <system.web>. Move it up under <configuration>.

 

[Winshent P]

Thanks John

its now sorted.

Vincent