I have a situation with two identical application (web) servers under a load balancer (fail over)
On both servers the same web applications are installed and the same IIS site configuration is used (actually I used an export and import to achieve this, with a rename the IP adres in the config).
On one of the servers I get the following error message when accessing a web service (while there is such a section in the machine.config)
"The configuration section 'protocolMapping' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration"
So apparently on this server, the machine.config is not read.
I checked the access rights for C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config and I think they are configured correctly (read permission for IIS-IUSRS).
Does anyone
1) know what might be possible causes?
2) know how to analyze this issue?
I know how to work-arround this issue to make the web applications work, that is not te problem, but I want to have both application servers operate in an identical way.
Thanks in advance!