Separating web.config sections using configsource in a server farm

Question

Looking ahead in the likely event we will build a server farm rather than maintaining individual servers etc I am looking into ways to reduce the task required for running an asp.net web application on a server farm.

With regards web.config files, I belive that all the web.configs need to be same on each machine. I assume that in the case where we use the configsource attribute to separate sections into their own files..eg:

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<pages configSource="App_Data\Configuration\pages.xml"/>
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...that all these files also need to be the same. This certainly makes sense but does this work in a server farm? ie using the configSource links or would it be a better practice to have a single web.config in each app on each machine?

Answer 1

I would recommend a single web.config for each application and each machine.