How do I increase the maxUrlLength property in the config in asp.net MVC 3?

Question

I am getting this error:

The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value.

Looking around the

Answer 1

Having the same problem in IIS8, the solution was to modify the root Web.config for the .NET Framework. This file is located in %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\framework_version\CONFIG. Editing the web.config file in the site root did not resolve the issue.