Internal Server Error with httpHandlers section of web.config

Today I encountered titled error when I was deploying IIS6 hosted application on IIS8. On browsing the application all it displayed me is 404 page and I was not able to run the debugger to check the application code.

Internal Server Error with httpHandlers section of web.config

After hours of struggle I found the solution, and would like to share it with you.

The issue was with Web.config httpHandler settings. Here is the configuration settings I was using on IIS6.

    <httpHandlers>
      <!-- Handler for School Details -->
      <add verb="*" path="vp/*.aspx" validate="false" type="eBellUI.Custom.eBellPageHandler, eBell.UI" />
    </httpHandlers>

Now, IIS7+ uses <system.webServer\handlers> instead of the IIS6 <httpHandlers> section. So, this will throw an error by default if you have the settings in the older way.

  <system.webServer>
    <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
    <handlers>
      <add name="eBellPageHandler" verb="*" path="vp/*.aspx" type="eBellUI.Custom.eBellPageHandler, eBell.UI" />
    </handlers>
  </system.webServer>

The validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" will allow you to keep your httpHandlers section populated without throwing an error (useful if you are debugging on a cassini / iis6 server) and the entry in the <handlers> section will configure it for your IIS7 server.

Hope this helps you to save time.

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