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Some have hundred's of web applications under _layouts on the MOSS site. Wish there was something to be added to the SharePoint web.config instead of adding the clause you mentioned to all web apps.

This fix breaks other features. We tried it and had to remove it. Now we're back to MS support who has no answer yet. The Search in certain sites broke, and a couple of other bad things. Microsoft needs to fix this instead of us hacking at it.

Bob, you only need to put it in the web.config of your custom Web Application. Don't put it in SharePoint's web.configs !

Thanks a lot ... life saver

Thanks mate.. safed me! :)

me too...!

Your info though good is very vague. What web service did you add. Can these all very.... How do we determine the web service that is causing the error.

I get this with a .NET 2.0 web app I have created, not a web services, I dont have a PublishingHttpModule entry in my apps web.config, any ideas?

James, it occurs for any custom .NET Web Application that you place in a virtual directory in a MOSS IIS site. Just add the 'remove' clause in your web.config.

Hi, I'm encountering these problems aswell. But when I include the element, in the child, my site will not work. The same goes for removing the whole

Make sure you add the element under

First entry after . . .

Hello, I found errors like this. My Description mentions 'http://servername/reports/_vti_bin/sitedata.asmx' as URL. Do you think this is the same thing?

Hello, I found errors like this. My Description mentions 'http://servername/reports/_vti_bin/sitedata.asmx' as URL. Do you think this is the same thing?

Normally no, unless you modified something ? The event log entry does no harm really but if it bothers you try to make the modification to the ISAPI folder's web.config...

I have the same events showing up only they are listed image files under all related MOSS sites. I have no custom applications or web apps living within the SharePoint. Specifically, I get the message for anything in http://moss/_layouts/images/*.gif and *.jpg http://ssp.moss/_layouts/images/*.gif and *.jpg http://cadmin.moss/_layouts/images/*.gif and *.jpg Search is also broken and I'm afraid that disabling the publishing module will make matters worse. I've seen a number of other blog entries stating that removing the publishing module can also break search. What does this module do exactly?

Hi Alex, disabling it is only for custom ASP.NET applications placed in the SharePoint application. The modules doesn't apply there because it handles MOSS Publishing output caching. Please don't remove it from SharePoint itself but only for custom (non SharePoint) applications underneath it. Did you or someone else modify the IMAGES folder's web.config or LAYOUTS folder's web.config ? Could also be something else is wrong with your environment.

Hello ! I have meet the same Error ! And for resolve it, I have added the remove in section : just before . in web.config of my Web application

Hello ! I have meet the same Error ! And for resolve it, I have added the remove in section : just before . in web.config of my Web application

Hello ! I have meet the same Error ! And for resolve it, I have added the remove in section : "<"location path="_layouts/images" "/"">" just before "<""/"system.web">". in web.config of my Web application

Hi, I want to know the impact of adding this line in my custom webservices. This webservices is used to ajax autocomlete entry of word.

Hi, I want to know the impact of removing PublishingHttpModule module in my custom webservices's webconfig. This webservices is used to ajax autocomlete entry of word. Thanks, Neetu

It will not be needlessly hit by the Publishing mechanism for output caching and you won't see those Event Log errors anymore for the Web Service.

Ok, so far I see that the only way to fix this is to add the ... What I don't get is which web.config? For example, in my case the site is "https://site5.company.com/". In the Inet IIS virtual directory where site5 is located there is a web.config file. Is this the correct file to edit? --------------------- Event Type: Error Event Source: Office SharePoint Server Event Category: Publishing Cache Event ID: 5785 Date: 1/26/2009 Time: 8:36:28 AM User: N/A Computer: MINWEBAPP3 Description: Unable to connect publishing custom string handler for output caching. IIS Instance Id is '513939971', Url is 'https://site5.company.com/_layouts/images/itdl.gif'. -------------------------

Hey Shawn, strange that you get that for a GIF file. It shouldn't be doing that in a standard environment. Did you make changes to the LAYOUTS or IMAGES folder's web.config ? Anyway, you COULD try to make the change to 12\TEMPLATE\IMAGES\web.config but in a standard env it isn't required so there might be sth else wrong.

Hey thanks for the info. I removed the httppublishing tag as suggested and it stopped the page working from anywhere other than the server(came up with some custom remote access errors). Any other suggestions?

Ian, what did you develop and where did you deploy it to ? Which url is mentioned in the error ?

Hi, I have the same issue. Could you please tell me with web.config file should a modify? I have some locations where there's a web.config file as: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\33818 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\33919 C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\CONFIG (I guess here not because is the config file for WSS)... Thanks in advance.

Seems like this MAY be the answer, but I need a clarification: In my custom web application (rather a virtual directory) under the MOSS web app (port 80) does not have the tag ..., so I need to add it to my custom web app's config. I DO NOT have the "remove" tag in the web.config my MOSS web application under port 80, but do have the "

Sorry about the earlier comment, looks like its stripping some tags... I'll keep this short: My custom web app, a virtual directory under the MOSS does not have the tag remove tag, so I need to add it to the custom apps web config. Now, I DO NOT have the -remove- tag in the web.config my MOSS web app but have the -add- tag, which is needed for pub sites. Won't this affect my MOSS publishing site if the tag is removed?

In the MOSS site's web.config (ie the 'root' web.config of the Web Application) there should be an 'add module' tag. If you have a custom web app then you need to specify the 'remove module' so that it is excluded for that specific application. Never remove it from the root web.config of the SharePoint Web App !

hello steve, we are also getting this error with image files in the Images folder, I don't think we did any modifications in the Images folder and we don't really know what causes these errors to appear, do you have an idea why it appears? it appears intermittently to us. we wanted to really test out the solution...

Thanks a million. Saved me a lot of headaches. Problem gone.

The same problem occurred to me with the BizTalk SharePoint Adapter Webservice (BTSharePointAdapterWS by default) which is generated as part of the installation process. Your fix worked like a charm. Thanks a lot!

Hi Steve, The same kind of problem occour to me, but i am using a WCF Service. Will the same solution work out for WCF Service application also?

Vinayak, definitely applies to WCF services as well.