The web.config file for this project is missing the required AjaxRequestModule.

[FreddieBoo]

The topic describes the problem

I've just today moved my website from a hosting company to my own web server. I've spent all day learning how to set up a asp.net website, sql server and so on.

Now I'm dealing with one of the last problems. This error message pops up everywhere on my website:

The web.config file for this project is missing the required AjaxRequestModule.

Example

<system.web>
  <httpModules>
    <add name="AjaxRequestModule" type="Coolite.Ext.Web.AjaxRequestModule, Coolite.Ext.Web" />
  </httpModules>
</system.web>

More information available at "Getting Started".

And none of the Coolite-code works. I've tried removing the .dll-files, and downloading new ones, without any results. Then I thought it might be that I didn't have AJAX installed on the server. So I downloaded Ajax 1.0 and installed, but the error remains.

Any ideas?

[ashishdaga]

Yesterday only I got the same problem and this is what I did:
I went to web.config and added following entries:

under tag

<httpHandlers>

added:

<add path="*/coolite.axd" verb="*" type="Coolite.Ext.Web.ResourceManager" validate="false"/>

and under tag

<httpModules>

added:

<add name="AjaxRequestModule" type="Coolite.Ext.Web.AjaxRequestModule, Coolite.Ext.Web"/>

and it start working.

Make sure you have coolite references dll - if not - try to add coolite component from Toolkit - it will add it.

[FreddieBoo]

Already have both those lines and all the .dll-files.

The problem is that everything worked fine when I had it on another host server. Now, when I've moved it to my own, I get this error message.

Why?

[FreddieBoo]

The problem persists, do you have any other suggestions? I am running the website on IIS 7 if that makes any difference.

[r_honey]

I have had success in running Coolite 0.6, 0.7 &amp; 0.8 on all of IIS 5, 6 &amp; 7. Here are the steps you should keep in mind:

FOR IIS 6.0 and earlier

Add the following to <httpModules> section under <system.web> section in web.config:

<add name="AjaxRequestModule" type="Coolite.Ext.Web.AjaxRequestModule, Coolite.Ext.Web" />

Add the following to <httpHandlers> section under <system.web> section in web.config:

<add path="*/coolite.axd" verb="*" type="Coolite.Ext.Web.ResourceManager" validate="false" />

FOR IIS 7.0, add the following to <system.webServer>

<system.webServer>
<validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false"/>
    <modules>
        <add name="AjaxRequestModule" preCondition="managedHandler" type="Coolite.Ext.Web.AjaxRequestModule, Coolite.Ext.Web" />
    </modules>
    <handlers>
        <add name="AjaxRequestHandler" verb="*" path="*/coolite.axd" preCondition="integratedMode" type="Coolite.Ext.Web.ResourceManager"/>
    </handlers>
</system.webServer>

[FreddieBoo]

Thank you r_honey, that solved my problem!

[kraghavk]

Thanks a ton r_honey! Solved my problem with IIS 7.

I had recently installed VS 2010 beta and then uninstalled. I kind of assumed that the 404 errors for coolite.axd files had something to do with this and was troubleshooting in the wrong areas.

Anyways, for Coolite errors, now I realize that I need to check out the forums first before trying to be very brave!!!

The guys in the forums here are awesome.

[jchau]

to be safe can i add the sections for both IIS6 and IIS7?? Or is it one or the other? Our application is deployed to both IIS6 and IIS7 and it's a pain to manually set those of every deployment.

[r_honey]

Yes jchau, you can safely add the sections for both IIS 6 &amp; 7 without any issues (that's the way I do it, because again my app gets deployed to any of those).

IIS ignores the configuration section in web.config that it does not understand. IIS 6 ignores <system.webServer>, whereas IIS 7 ignores <system.web>.

[vedagopal2004]

Hi r_honey,

I also struggled with same problem. I also hosted my coolite application on Win2008 / IIS7 server.
I did the changes suggested by you.

It is working fine.

Great Answer! Thank You!

Regards,
Gopal.