Configuration error Unable to decrypt password attribute

Question

IIS Web Core Module
Notification Unknown
Handler not yet defined
Error Code 0x8007000d
Configuration error Unable to decrypt password attribute
Config Unavailable File

When I run the application, getting this error, and I could not find any solution, please help?

Answer 1

I solved the problem. The problem was in the applicationHost.config file. In the file, I deleted the username and password definitions for the applications, and it worked fine.

Answer 2

I fixed this by disabling anonymous access in the application and then re-enabling it. No need to restart IIS.

Answer 3

This is one of those mysterious mistakes. For me, a problem arose when we cloned a development server. When I rebuilt some sites in IIS on a cloned server, one of the sites threw this error. You need to delete all sites that use the same application pool in IIS and recreate them.

Answer 4

I had the same problem after cloning a web server.

Decision:

Source Server:

aspnet_regiis -px "iisConfigurationKey" "C:\temp\iisConfigurationKey.xml" -pri aspnet_regiis -px "iisWasKey" "C:\temp\iisWasKey.xml" -pri 

Target Server:

 aspnet_regiis -pi "iisConfigurationKey" "C:\temp\iisConfigurationKey.xml" aspnet_regiis -pi "iisWasKey" "C:\temp\iisWasKey.xml" 

And in the end, copy applicationhost.config from the source server to the target server.