I made a simple navigation tree...for my site.

It works 100% offline but online i am receiving the error below.

Firstly,  why will soemthing work offline but not online?

Secondly and more importantly, how do i fix my problem?
 

Server Error in '/' Application.
Configuration Error
Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level.  This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.

Source Error:

Line 17: 	<system.web>
Line 18: 
Line 19:     <siteMap defaultProvider="XmlSiteMapProvider" enabled="true">
Line 20:       <providers>
Line 21:         

my web.config file

    <siteMap defaultProvider="XmlSiteMapProvider" enabled="true">
      <providers>
        <add name="XmlSiteMapProvider" 
             description="SiteMap provider which reads in .sitemap XML files." 
             type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" 
             siteMapFile="Web.sitemap" 
             securityTrimmingEnabled="true"/>
      </providers>
    </siteMap>

iperez_genius:

It works 100% offline but online i am receiving the error below.

Firstly,  why will soemthing work offline but not online?

Hi,

I think you might have some misunderstanding. The ASP.NET pages are "rendered" by the web server and the HTML source code is send back to the browsers to "display". The situation that you are able to "display" it in browser when it is offline means that the page was successfully "rendred" previously from the web server before, so it should be online then and the browser is only able to get the results from the web server only when they are connected. When your computer is changed to offline, the working copy should be retrieved from browser cache or it had been saved locally. I think the reason why you get error when you try to connect to the server again is that the server's configuration might have been changed and contains error.

Can you provide your full-lis of web.config files. According to the error message, you have some configuration error in this file and the one provide looks like a section of the file.

Hope it helps.

I am having the exact same problem. I have been searching for an answer for over 5 hours now. Scenario, I'm not using IIS - I'm using the default IIS-lite that is built into VS.NET 2005. I have one web.config and have tried <location> and another web.config which you should be able to do according to the docs but get the above allowDefinition="MachineToApplication" error. Browsing to the root/default.aspx works great, it only blows up after entering "TheScoop/Default.aspx"

Directory Structure

Root
    TheScoop
        Default.aspx

Here is the root web.config

1    
2    <configuration xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0">
3    	<appSettings/>
4    	<connectionStrings/>
5    	<location path="TheScoop">
6    		<system.web>
7    			<siteMap defaultProvider="siteMapHeader1">
8    				<providers>
9    					<clear />
10   					<add name="siteMapHeader1"
11   						description="The Scoop SiteMap provider."
12   						type="DevExpress.Web.ASPxSiteMapControl, DevExpress.Web.v7.1, Version=7.1.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=79868B8147B5EAE4"
13   						siteMapFile="~/App_Data/TheScoop.sitemap"
14   						securityTrimmingEnabled="true" />
15   				</providers>
16   			</siteMap>
17   		</system.web>
18   	</location>
19   
20   	<system.web>
21   		<compilation debug="true">
22   			<assemblies>
23   				<add assembly="DevExpress.Web.v7.1, Version=7.1.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=79868B8147B5EAE4" />
24   				<add assembly="System.Design, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A" />
25   				<add assembly="System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089" />
26   			</assemblies>
27   		</compilation>
28   		<authentication mode="None"/>
29   	</system.web> 
30   </configuration>

 Here you can see I'm using the <location> tag and really nothing special here. Here is a sample of the web.config for "TheScoop" directory - keep in mind that I comment out the <location> tag when I try this. Also this is under the "TheScoop" directory.

1    
2    <!-- 
3        Note: As an alternative to hand editing this file you can use the 
4        web admin tool to configure settings for your application. Use
5        the Website->Asp.Net Configuration option in Visual Studio.
6        A full list of settings and comments can be found in 
7        machine.config.comments usually located in 
8        \Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.x\Config 
9    -->
10   <configuration>
11   	<system.web>
12   		<siteMap defaultProvider="siteMapHeader1">
13   			<providers>
14   			<clear />
15   				<add name="siteMapHeader1"
16   				  description="The Scoop SiteMap provider."
17   				  type="DevExpress.Web.ASPxSiteMapControl, DevExpress.Web.v7.1, Version=7.1.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=79868B8147B5EAE4"
18   				  siteMapFile="~/App_Data/TheScoop.sitemap"
19   				  securityTrimmingEnabled="true" />
20   			</providers>
21   		</siteMap>
22   	</system.web>
23   </configuration>

Here is the error produced.

Line 5:  	<location path="TheScoop">
Line 6:  		<system.web>
Line 7:  			<siteMap defaultProvider="siteMapHeader1">
Line 8:  				<providers>
Line 9:  					<clear />

I can't solve your problem but i can sympathise with you...

I didn't solve my problem and resolved to moving into a CSS solution for my menus, which in my opinion are better anyway.

If you are not new to vs2005 i need some serious help trying to connect my website to a sql db and i can't get it to run

if you could either email, message or msn me i would apprecaite it.

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Ilan