ASP.NET: HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error 0x8007000d

Question

I am replicating web application deployment and found several issues related to HTTP Error 500.19. My machine is running Windows 7 while the wo

Answer 1

Kind of late to the party here, but I have just been struggling with the exact same issue (symptoms) and cursing the lack of error detail reporting. It worked fine on IIS 8+ machines but Win 7 got these INSTANT HTTP 500.19 errors. For me it was as silly as having an unsupported configuration element in the config file:

So while running old web.config files worked fine, I just diffed them and started chopping away at new blocks until I got the page to start loading. Had I seen this as an answer I would have gone this route immediately as I knew none of the popular solutions were relevant. So there you go :)