Can we use wildcards with NETSH HTTP ADD URLACL in Windows 7 / 2008r2?

Question

i'm using IIS7 express and therefore need to unblock port 80 if I wish to hit the website locally and on the default http port. To do this, i use ..

netsh http add urlacl url=http://my.custom.locahost.domain.com:80/ user=mydomain\myusername

is it possible to say something like

netsh http add urlacl url=*:80/ user=*

so basically, anything going to port 80, by anyone, is allowed?

Answer 1

See here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733768.aspx which shows this:

netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:80/MyUri user=DOMAIN\user

My understanding is that it will listening to anything at port 80 and if you want it linked to a specific address, you'd actually have to unbind it. That's what I have to do if I want to run IIS and Apache on the same box with both listening to port 80.

For the user, domain\domain users should be a valid domain group which includes everyone.