Why am I getting: InvalidOperationException: Failed to map the path '/app42/App_Code/'.
- by serialhobbyist
I've been working on a little Silverlight utility which calls a Silverlight web service. It works from my dev machine (XPsp2). I've tried publishing it to a 2008 R2 IIS 7.5 server and it doesn't work when trying to contact the web service. So I've tried using the WcfTestClient to connect to the web service. That gave an error. So I turned off CustomErrors and used IE and I get the following. Any idea why? There's no App_Code folder in the app.
Failed to map the path '/app42/App_Code/'.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: Failed to map the path '/app42/App_Code/'.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated
during the execution of the current
web request. Information regarding the
origin and location of the exception
can be identified using the exception
stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[InvalidOperationException: Failed to map the path '/app42/App_Code/'.]
System.Web.Configuration.ProcessHostConfigUtils.MapPathActual(String siteName, VirtualPath path) +320
System.Web.Configuration.ProcessHostServerConfig.System.Web.Configuration.IServerConfig.MapPath(IApplicationHost appHost, VirtualPath path) +34
System.Web.Hosting.MapPathBasedVirtualPathEnumerator..ctor(VirtualPath virtualPath, RequestedEntryType requestedEntryType) +169
System.Web.Hosting.MapPathBasedVirtualPathCollection.System.Collections.IEnumerable.GetEnumerator() +43
System.Web.Compilation.CodeDirectoryCompiler.ProcessDirectoryRecursive(VirtualDirectory vdir, Boolean topLevel) +147
System.Web.Compilation.CodeDirectoryCompiler.GetCodeDirectoryAssembly(VirtualPath virtualDir, CodeDirectoryType dirType, String assemblyName, StringSet excludedSubdirectories, Boolean isDirectoryAllowed) +11196502
System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CompileCodeDirectory(VirtualPath virtualDir, CodeDirectoryType dirType, String assemblyName, StringSet excludedSubdirectories) +185
System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CompileCodeDirectories() +654
System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.EnsureTopLevelFilesCompiled() +658
[HttpException (0x80004005): Failed to map the path '/app42/App_Code/'.]
System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.ReportTopLevelCompilationException() +76
System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.EnsureTopLevelFilesCompiled() +1012
System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.Initialize(ApplicationManager appManager, IApplicationHost appHost, IConfigMapPathFactory configMapPathFactory, HostingEnvironmentParameters hostingParameters) +1025
[HttpException (0x80004005): Failed to map the path '/app42/App_Code/'.]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.FirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +11301302
System.Web.HttpRuntime.EnsureFirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +88
System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestNotificationPrivate(IIS7WorkerRequest wr, HttpContext context) +4338644
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.4927; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.4927
