appliction host file not well formed xml?

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I am trying to open a website with my new VS 2013 but I am getting this error message:

Filename: \\?\UNC\[ ... a local path here ...]\My Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationHost.config<br />
Line number: 1<br />
Error: Configuration file is not well-formed XML

I noticed that in that folder I actually have a configurationhost.config file but it is empty (0K). Is that bad?

How do I fix it?

Posted 8-Mar-15 23:16pm

Herbisaurus

Updated 27-Nov-16 18:54pm

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Posted 27-Nov-16 18:54pm

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**Joezer BH** · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-08T23:19:00

Ahmm,

For some reason your applicationHost.config (and not configurationhost.config as you stated after the error quote) is empty and it shouln't be.

What you had best do is simply remove it and run the IISExpress.exe that is probably in this path: "c:\Program Files\IIS Express\iisexpress.exe"

It should be re-created for you by the exe when it notices that it's missing.

Cheers,
c