Running an ASP.net project with an Application Pool with a specific Identity yields "(403) Forbidden"

Question

I'm getting this error message when trying to start an ASP.net project from Visual Studio (it doesn't run):

Unable to start debugging on the web server. The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.

Help takes me to this page which is unhelpful. Searching for the more general error yields me this page which is also unhelpful. I'm using IIS 10 with an Application Pool of my creation with a different Identity than mine.

user_672891 · Answer

In my case, I have changed Solution Configuration from Release to Debug mode.

To

This solution may work for someone.

user_9363343 · Answer

for me the issue was physical path pointed to some other folder, and below post helped fixed the issue

another site running on IISExpress

Running an ASP.net project with an Application Pool with a specific Identity yields "(403) Forbidden"

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