How to Prevent MVC 4 Child Application inheriting Parent Application (Umbraco MVC3) web.config

Question

I have Umbraco deployed on the server. Currently I am trying to deploy MVC 4 Application as a child application but somehow the child\'s views\\web.config inherits the confi

Answer 1

You have a few options. Allow the inheritance and remove the sectionGroup from the child config(s) or something like this in any parent:

<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
  <sectionGroup name="system.web.webPages.razor" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorWebSectionGroup, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35">
    <section name="host" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" />
    <section name="pages" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorPagesSection, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" />
  </sectionGroup>
</location>

Intellisense may complain about this however but it should compile and run fine.

This question might also be of value: Disable web.config inheritance?

Answer 2

I had the exact same issue. I resolved it by adding an assembly redirect for razor to my child application like this:

<runtime>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
  <dependentAssembly>
   <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.WebPages.Razor" publicKeyToken="31BF3856AD364E35" culture="neutral" />
    <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-2.0.0.0" newVersion="2.0.0.0" />
  </dependentAssembly>
 </assemblyBinding>
</runtime>