I created a boilerplate .NET Framework 4.8 Web Forms application in Visual Studio. It runs fine in IIS Express from VS (I can navigate to a home page, about page, contact page).
Now I'd like to get it running on IIS. When I publish the application to a folder and create a new website in IIS, I first get this error that it can't access the config file. After following another post about adding permissions to IIS_IUSR, when I try to navigate to the website it just sits and loads for eternity.
This is what I'm seeing in the logs at "C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC4".
2022-09-20 15:50:40 ::1 GET / - 8082 - ::1 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+10.0;+Win64;+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/105.0.0.0+Safari/537.36+Edg/105.0.1343.42 - 500 19 5 122
2022-09-20 15:50:40 ::1 GET /favicon.ico - 8082 - ::1 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+10.0;+Win64;+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/105.0.0.0+Safari/537.36+Edg/105.0.1343.42 http://localhost:8082/ 500 19 5 6
2022-09-20 15:51:15 ::1 GET / - 8082 - ::1 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+10.0;+Win64;+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/105.0.0.0+Safari/537.36+Edg/105.0.1343.42 - 500 19 5 2