Replacing sections in web.config using web deployment project

Question

I am trying to replace the following section to blank section ..

 <secureWebPages mode="RemoteOnly" encryptedUri="abc.co.uk" unencryptedUri="www.abc.co.uk" maintainPath="True" warningBypassMode="AlwaysBypass" bypassQueryParamName="BypassSecurityWarning" ignoreHandlers="WithStandardExtensions">
    <files>
        <add path="abc.aspx"/>
    </files>
</secureWebPages>

But after executing it is giving me the following error

WDP00002: missing section secureWebPages/configuration.

Can any one plz help me in this regard

Is it possible to replace whole configuration section – sam Jul 10 '09 at 10:16 — sam, Jul 10 '09 at 10:16
+1 I have the same problem, and could use the answer – MattH Oct 05 '09 at 11:00 — MattH, Oct 05 '09 at 11:00

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 05 '09 at 12:06

This error appears to mean the section you wish to replace, cannot be found in the web.config.

For example, my entry in my WDP read

authentication=authentication.config

However authentication could not be found in the root, as it is under system.web, so I changed it to

system.web/authentication=authentication.config

and this worked.

Note that while debugging this, I tried to replace the whole system.web element, and this did not appear to work either - I am not sure what caused this, but if you cannot replace system.web, I suggest you try a different element, and see if that works, such as connectionStrings

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '12 at 03:49

So this problem has popped up for me recently and until finding this I was at a loss. So it seems that the web.config is made up of not only sections, but section groups as well. Now system.serviceModel, system.web etc are service groups and as such cannot be replaced as a whole.

You can replace sections in the group by using "section group"/"section"=x.config

Hope this helps :)

Replacing sections in web.config using web deployment project

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