Child .NET applications running under earlier versions of Framework (Pools are setup)

Question

I have an interesting situation where I am deploying an application to a subdirectory that is running an earlier version of the .NET framework that the root application.

/   <- .NET 4.0
/child/   <- .NET 2.0

The application pools are setup correctly, as far as I can tell. The error page I received for the child app indicates the framework to be:

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.4216; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.4209

That looks good to me. However, I get this error:

Unrecognized attribute 'targetFramework'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive.

This seems to indicate that the web.config file on the root application is overwriting part of the child web.config file. Is there something I can do to prevent that?

Answer 1

For future people running into this problem, you can wrap in your configuration file with this:

<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">

Remember to add after and you'll be good to go.