To be honest, I\'ve tried to turn a dirty trick on IIS and just when I thought that I was going to get away with it, I realized my workaround doesn\'t work. Here\'s what I\'
This error started happening to me out of nowhere last week, affecting the existing web sites on my machine. I had no luck with it trying any of the suggestions here. Eventually I removed WebDAV from IIS completely (Windows Features -> Internet Information Services -> World Wide Web Services -> Common HTTP Features -> WebDAV Publishing). I did an IIS reset after this for good measure, and my error was finally resolved.
I can only guess that a Windows update started the issue, but I can't be sure.