ASP.Net - It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level

Question

Getting this error on an intranet application we have running in our development environment, and I\'m not sure where to go/look for a solution. The application used to work

Answer 1

In some cases this could be caused by creating another sub-folder in your project and you added another Web.config file which has the same filename as the other Web.config file in the root folder.

To resolve this error, rename your newly added Web.config file to another name.