Can we override parent website's web.config?

Question

I have a website and a sub website. Now I am facing problem that is my sub website's web.config file is inheriting parent website's web.config file.
My parent website's web.config file has some <configSections> and my sub website does not need these <configSections> .
How can I do this ? I try to search net but find nothing helpful.

Answer 1

Yes, you can specify allowOverride in the parent web.config in a location section to allow child web.config values to override the parent ones.

You can also set inheritInChildApplications to false so that your sections aren't automatically inherited into the child web.config.