If you are implementing your own hosting environment, you may to override this property to return the location of your environment's root configuration file. An example of this is the System.Web.Hosting.SimpleWorkerRequest class which provides a simple implementation of the System.Web.HttpWorkerRequest. The System.Web.Hosting.SimpleWorkerRequest.RootWebConfigPath property of System.Web.Hosting.SimpleWorkerRequest class overrides the HttpWorkerRequest.RootWebConfigPath property of System.Web.HttpWorkerRequest class.