This program is blocked by group policy. for more information, contact your system administrator

Question

Problem :

When I try to upload my application on to the GoDaddy shared Plesk hosting account, I get the below error.

“This program is blocked by group policy. For more information, contact your system administrator.”

Does anyone know a purpose of this block or why the Microsoft puts it there?

Please Note : The app uses C# and not VB.

Answer 1

From the ASP.NET 2 it is possible to upload the site to your hosting without even compiling it. Then your site will be compiled on a initial request using a compiler settings as seen in your web.config. If you have pre-compiled your site but still have the code in the App_code folder then those settings will be used to compile the code.

I think the go-daddy disabled the compiling on their servers so malicious code can not be inserted and compiled or executed.

As long as you are not using your App_code folder and you have pre-compiled your website then you can delete your web.config section that you have mentioned.

OR

On the server change the Asp.net settings. There is the option for Trust Level. Just try to set it to the "Full".

This will surely solve your error.