Can someone please help with asp.net configuration error?

Question

I have an issue that is driving me nuts and I have tried everything I can think of to solve it.

I started gettting the following error when I tried to launch asp.net configuration from within all visual studio pro 2008 projects and websites.

"Server Error in '/asp.netwebadminfiles' Application. Session state can only be used when enableSessionState is set to true, either in a configuration file or in the Page directive. Please also make sure that System.Web.SessionStateModule or a custom session state module is included in the \\ section in the application configuration."

I am not sure what I have changed to start getting this error.

The problem is not confined to a particular project as I started a basic project from scratch and get the same issue. I get the error on all projects and websites.

I can still run the projects from the local server without any problem.

I have done what the error suggests to no avail. Is there a setting somewhere I have inadvertently changed to get this problem?

Answer 1

just to close this off.

There is a backup of the machine.config and web.config files in the /CONFIG directory with _default on the end. I renamed the existing files to _old and copied the new files to machine.config and web.config and all is now good and the asp.net config launches as expected.