iis-express

Browse Web Site With IP Address Rather than localhost

Go to your IISExpress>Config folder, locate applicationhost.config. Change <bindings> as below: <bindings> <binding protocol=”http” bindingInformation=”*:1407:YOUR_IP_ADDRESS” /> </bindings> Before you do this , you will have to register this IP address using netsh command as below: Port forwarding in Windows 7 If you’re running Windows 7, pretty much all incoming connections are locked down, so you … Read more

Android Emulator loopback to IIS Express does not work, but does work with Cassini

Grant yourself permission to bind to network adapters other than localhost, and configure IIS express to bind to all adapters. IIS Express will then accept connections from the Android emulator via 10.0.2.2. If you add a rule to the firewall, you can also expose IIS Express to your network, which decreases security but is useful … Read more

Using IIS Express to host a website (temporarily)

By default IIS Express serves only localhost requests. To serve external requests edit applicationhost.config file (located in %userprofile%\documents\iisexpress\config\) and change localhost to ‘*’ or your machine name. (remember for non-localhost binding you must be running as administrator or set URL acl as an administrator and then run iisexpress as non-administrator)

ASP.NET MVC5/IIS Express unable to debug – Code Not Running

For me the solution was a much simpler one. In my Solution Explorer in Visual Studio, I right click on the web project, chose properties and then navigated to the “web” tab. From there I changed the Project URL to another port number. For example, if it was http://localhost:1052 – I changed it to http://localhost:4356. … Read more

how to run iisexpress app pool under a different identity

It looks like this should be possible. In your IIS Express site’s applicationhost.config file, there is a <processModel/> element defined in <applicationPoolDefaults> under <applicationPools> The <processModel> element has attributes for userName and password. From MSDN: Specifies that ASP.NET will run the worker process with a Windows identity that is different from the Windows identity for … Read more

IIS Express Immediately shutting-down running site after stopping web application

I recently faced a similar situation when suddenly my IIS Express stopped right after I stopped debugging. This happened after I turned on “Enable Edit and Continue”. So if you disable this you will see that IIS Express stays running even after debugging is stopped. Right click your project > click Properties > select the … Read more