{"id":220,"date":"2014-09-07T14:21:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T14:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.catalystlogic.com.au\/?p=133"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:44:18","slug":"iprestrictionmodule-500-19-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"<ipSecurity> & IpRestrictionModule 500.19 Error"},"content":{"rendered":"

Azure Web Sites support IP restriction in the web config, as demonstrated by Stefan Schackow's MSDN Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I then add the following to my web.config<\/p>\n

While this works great for Azure, for local builds, you may encounter:<\/p>\n

HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error<\/h3>\n

The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Module<\/td>\nIpRestrictionModule<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Notification<\/td>\nBeginRequest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Handler<\/td>\nExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Error Code<\/td>\n0x80070021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Config Error<\/td>\nThis configuration section cannot be used at this path. This happens when the section is locked at a parent level. Locking is either by default (overrideModeDefault=\"Deny\"), or set explicitly by a location tag with overrideMode=\"Deny\" or the legacy allowOverride=\"false\".<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The culprit was the snippet at the\u00a0bottom of my applciationHost.config<\/p>\n

<location path=\"\" overrideMode=\"Deny\">\n  <system.webServer>\n    <security>\n    <\/security>\n  <\/system.webServer>\n<\/location><\/pre>\n
Commenting out the entire location tag resolves the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Azure Web Sites support IP restriction in the web config, as demonstrated by Stefan Schackow's MSDN Blog. I then add the following to my web.config While this works great for Azure, for local builds, you may encounter: HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data ...continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-azure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}