Questions tagged [iis-express]
IIS Express is a version of IIS optimized to ease website development. Among other features, it is self-contained, and lighter weight than the full version of IIS, and does not need to be run as a service, or require administrative rights for most of its functions.
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Where's the management interface for IISExpress?
Is there an interface separate from the regular IIS manager?
When I search on IISExpress I find only a link to a folder full of logs related to IISExpress sites that had been spawned by Visual Studio....
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Can we use wildcards with NETSH HTTP ADD URLACL in Windows 7 / 2008r2?
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....
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How to configure IIS Express to ask for client certificate
Does anybody know how to configure IIS Express to require client certificate for access?
I'm trying to debug a problematic ASP.NET application which uses client certificates for authentication.
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First Request to IIS Express Fails with 503 Service Unavailable, Second Succeeds
Each time I start my ASP.Net MVC 3 app from Visual Studio 2010, IIS Express launches and IE spins waiting. The request fails with HTTP 503 Service Unavailable. I hit Refresh in IE, and the request ...
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Connection Reset error trying to set up HTTPS locally using VS and IIS Express
I'm trying to set up Facebook authentication on my application, so I tried following the steps at this page: http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-5/create-an-aspnet-mvc-5-app-with-facebook-and-google-...
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With WebMatrix, How do I Connect to a MySQL Database on a Colleague's Machine? [closed]
I have scoured Google trying to discover how to do this, but essentially I want to connect to a colleague's MySQL database for working together on a Wordpress installation.
I am having no luck and ...
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How to configure IIS Express in order to allow a non-administrator to use SSL ports outside the range of 44300 to 44399?
According to the IIS Express documentation administrative privileges are needed to run SSL using a port outside the range of 44300 to 44399.
For non-administrative users IIS Express
configures HTTP....
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How can I hit my iis express site from my android devices?
I have a site running under IIS Express, I added the following to my applicationHost.config
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:49223:localhost" />
<binding protocol="http" ...
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Windows update causes IIS Express to fail with ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR
I've been building reactjs apps on a windows machine for the past year, running the Visual Studio IIS test server for debugging / testing.
I just installed a windows update pack, rebooted, and my ...
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Powershell, IIS Express, Server 2012, Microsoft.Web.Administration requires run as admin
I'm having a strange issue with Microsoft.Web.Adminstration 7.9.0.0 for IISExpress requiring run as administrator on Server 2012.
What I'm trying to do is add a Website to a custom ApplicationHost....
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How to change IIS Express Virtual Directory password encryption provider?
In Visual Studio 2012 I'm working on an ASP.NET MVC application which requires a Virtual Directory under the main application directory called "Shared". This happens to point to a UNC path, so I need ...
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For iis-express on terminal services, can I limit connections to just the current user/session
I'd like to run iis-express within a user session on a windows terminal services server.
However, I'd like only my current user to have access to the iis-express hosted site. Is there a way of ...
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How can I use Powershell to add a site to my IIS or IISExpress server
Is it possible to add a site (and bindings) to my applicationHost.config file for IIS Express or IIS ?
here's one I had to manually add (which works perfectly) ...
<site name="Our Awesome website"...
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IIS Express webapps don't show up in the system tray gui when I launch an asp.net core app from VS 2022 IDE
I'm using Windows Server 2019 and would like to be able to stop or restart the app on iisexpress server from system tray gui in case there are any glitches, how can I restart the app with or without ...
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IIS does not load site bindings for HTTP protocol
I have an applicationhost.config file which is configured for both http and https protocols.
<site name="Application.Namespace" id="2">
<application path="/" applicationPool="...
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Running Moodle on Windows 2008 Server other than Webmatrix
I am an educator and not a tech savvy but managed to install a Moodle installation in Windows 2008 server for the local network via the following environment:
WebMatrix Version 3.0: 7.1.1934.0 IIS ...
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Configure virtual directory with forward slash with IIS Express
I have configured IIS Express to have multiple virtual directories with a forward slash in the path by editing applicationhost.config. Is this the only way to have a path with a forward slash - hand ...
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Change an IISExpress site's physicalPath on the command line
What's the easiest way to accomplish this? I see there's lots of examples for appcmd relating to IIS proper, and using powershell for same, but I can't see an API of sorts for reconfiguring the ...
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iis express: A blank web.config breaks my website
I'm running iis express on windows 7. When I put a web.config file in my site it will not load- the browser keeping waiting for it to respond.
I even tried an "empty" web.config with the following ...
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How to fix Bad request response from IIS express 7 for one request from internet
I'm trying IISExpress 7 in Windows XP to servr requests from internet for ASP .NET MVC2 applicaton
I changed line in iisexpress 7 applicationhost.config from
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Access IIS Express site from iPad
I am trying to access http://localhost:25436/ from my iPad. I have looked at many similar questions on Stack Overflow and elsewhere and none of them have fixed the problem.
I am using Visual Studio ...