Will a child application inherit from its parent web.config?

Question

I setup a IIS application from within an existing application.

Will the parents web.config be inherited or is that something I have to set explicitly?

Answer 1

What you do is change the parent .NET 4 app's web.config to indicate its settings shouldn't flow down to the children

   
    ...your system.web stuff goes here
   

For more details refer here http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ChangingASPNETWebconfigInheritanceWhenMixingVersionsOfChildApplications.aspx