title: How to set Allow Parent Paths in IIS Express Config using asp directive
body: <p>This is a continuation of a answered question in the following link:
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4769751/how-to-set-allow-parent-paths-in-iis-express-config">How to set Allow Parent Paths in IIS Express Config</a></p>
  
  <p>I am running a classic asp web site in IISexpress. 
  The same web site is also used in IIS 7.5 in a w7 pro and works fine enabling the parent paths in the IIS configuration of the web but trying to use the web.config in IISExpress does not work</p>
  
  <p>The problem that I am experiencing is that in the suggested web.config in order to enable the parent paths:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;configuration&gt;
       &lt;system.webServer&gt;
        &lt;asp 
           enableParentPaths="true" 
           bufferingOn="true" 
           errorsToNTLog="true" 
           appAllowDebugging="true" 
           appAllowClientDebug="true" 
           scriptErrorSentToBrowser="true"&gt;
  
           &lt;session allowSessionState="true" /&gt;
           &lt;cache diskTemplateCacheDirectory="%TEMP%\iisexpress\ASP Compiled Templates" /&gt;
           &lt;limits /&gt;
        &lt;/asp&gt;
       &lt;/system.webServer&gt;
      &lt;/configuration&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get a 500 error every time that I try to use any asp tag
  If I remove the asp tag it all works fine,
  Anybody has a clue?
  TIA</p>