applicationHost.config - Configuration file is not well-formed XML
Posted by Chandana | Filed under IIS, TIP, Windows
This is totally IIS configuration related issue as applicationHost.config marked as corrupted. You may get this error due to various reasons like OneCare or Forefront is running on the same machine, unmanaged restoration, erroneous editing of applicationHost.config, etc. Here I am going to show you quick recovery method without going any deep. Technically we are going to restore the applicationHost.config file form IIS generated backups by using AppCmd.exe command line tool.
- Go to the Command Propmet.
- Change the path to > %windir%\system32\inetsrv\
- Find the current backup list > %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe list backup
- Select the latest backup by sequence number
- Restore the backup > %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe restore backup <backup name>
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May 12th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Hi,
It works fine….
Excellant Post.
Thanks.
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July 4th, 2009 at 2:12 am
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August 31st, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Wow, this is very useful.. Thanks for sharing this and hoping I could implement it too.
October 6th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Hey, !! Thanx…
May be I am just another one to tell you Thanx!! It works,,,
November 17th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Hi..
Thanks a lot…
It just worked for me….
Thanks again.
March 13th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Thanks - This worked great. Running Citrix Web Interface and after an update everything stopped working. Nobody could log into Citrix.
Running the restore backup fixed it.
Thanks - Notice the post time and you can see I’ve been at it for awhile