The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid

Question

I am getting this error when I try to run an ASP.NET application without a web.config file.

The requested page cannot be accessed because the related

Answer 1

This can be a reason:

If there is no Web.config file in the UNC directory, IIS 7.0 uses the rules that are defined for the parent directory. For the Web content to be served in this scenario, the worker-process identity must have access to the whole content directory. Otherwise, the Web request is rejected.

Details here.