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ASP.NET Configuration granularity between Machine-level and Site-level?

I want to be able specify to do the following:

  • Specify configuration settings such as appSettings and connectionStrings for multiple web apps in IIS7
  • No editing Machine.config or the machine-level web.config
  • Web apps are distinct web sites in IIS (not subfolder apps)

Is this possible without just duplicating the configs for each app?

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Your question is a bit unclear... do you mean that you want multiple web sites to SHARE a web.config so that you can make changes to multiple sites in one place?

Bryan  2010-04-29 21:33:08
I don't think sharing a web.config would be appropriate given the diversity of the applications themselves. Rather, I'd want them to all inherit their settings from a single place, much like they already inherit from the machine-level configs. From what I've seen, I'm not sure this is possible - I'm just hoping someone else knows about something I don't.
Daniel Schaffer  2010-04-29 22:51:15
Not possible. This is precisely what the default ASP.NET web.config is for... so why are you excluding that as an option?
Bryan  2010-04-29 23:14:21
Because I don't want to have to manage the same config across a dozen different apps.
Daniel Schaffer  2010-04-30 18:00:11
By "default" I meant machine-level web.config that is found in the Framework/CONFIG directory. Why can you not use that? You are basically asking for a feature which already exists and then saying you can't use it.
Bryan  2010-04-30 19:20:31

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