Sitecore: Could not find configuration node

Question

I'm getting the following error when I trying to run my site via IIS:

Could not find configuration node: settings/setting[@name='MediaFolder']/@value

I'm using version 6.5 of Sitecore. When I search for MediaFolder in my project I find the following:

SitecoreSettings.config

<setting name="MediaFolder" value="$(mediaFolder)" />

Web.config:

<sc.variable name="mediaFolder" value="/upload" />

Unfortunately I'm not really familiar with Sitecore so I'm not really sure where to start looking. Perhaps I'm missing a file?

Which version of Sitecore are you using? You should check either web.config or /app_config/sitecore.config for a value "MediaFolder". — Gatogordo
So you found these config files in your project. But are they deployed to your website instance in IIS? (they probably aren't) — Dmytro Shevchenko

Aetherix Aetherix · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-18T12:08:13

The issue for me was a problem with config transformation files that were not correctly specified as transformations.

In my Web.csproj file I had this:

<Content Include="App_Config\AppSettings.config">
  <SubType>Designer</SubType>
  <TransformOnBuild>true</TransformOnBuild>
</Content>
<Content Include="App_Config\AppSettings.Test.config" />

When it should have been this:

<Content Include="App_Config\AppSettings.config">
  <SubType>Designer</SubType>
  <TransformOnBuild>true</TransformOnBuild>
</Content>
<None Include="App_Config\AppSettings.Test.config">
  <DependentUpon>AppSettings.config</DependentUpon>
  <IsTransformFile>True</IsTransformFile>
</None>

Sitecore: Could not find configuration node

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