This error occurs if XmlSiteMapProvider does not find web.sitemap file. By default it looks for this file in the root of the website therefore if you add web.sitemap file in your website you are likly to get this error.
So to overcome this error simple move web.sitemap file in the root of website if its not in the root. Or if you dont want to have web.sitemap file in the root of website, you can reconfigure XmlSiteMapProvider by adding it in the web.config file of your website.Like...
< siteMap defaultProvider="XmlSiteMapProvider" enabled="true" >
< providers >
< clear/ >
< add name="XmlSiteMapProvider"
type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider, System.Web,Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
siteMapFile="~/Resource/web.sitemap"
securityTrimmingEnabled="true"/ >
< /providers >
< /siteMap >
Note : You can ste new path of your we.sitemap in the siteMapFile attribute.
Error: Failed to access IIS metabase
This is error occurs when you have installed IIS after installing Microsoft Visual Studio. So to overcome this error you can either run aspnet_regiis utility or re-install .net framework.
If you have installed IIS over .net framework 2.0 then you have to run this utility from following folder.
C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis -i
In some cases this error occurs user account under which web application is running does not have proper permission on the IIS metabase. In that case run following commond.
aspnet_regiis -ga
If you have installed IIS over .net framework 2.0 then you have to run this utility from following folder.
C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis -i
In some cases this error occurs user account under which web application is running does not have proper permission on the IIS metabase. In that case run following commond.
aspnet_regiis -ga
