How do I start stop IIS Express Server

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I have installed MS Visual Web Developer 2010 which includes IIS Express   Before this  I had installed XAMPP server for my php applications   I would like to know how can I stop IIS in order to be able to start XAMPP  It appears that they use the same port  I guess those could be changed  but I do not want to interfere with other programs  and more than that I think this should be simpler   Thanks

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Closing IIS Express

By default Visual Studio places the IISExpress icon in your system tray at the lower right hand side of your screen, by the clock. You can right click it and choose exit. If you don't see the icon, try clicking the small arrow to view the full list of icons in the system tray.

IIS Express icon

then right click and choose Exit:

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Changing the Port

Another option is to change the port by modifying the project properties. You'll need to do this for each web project in your solution.

Visual Studio > Solution Explorer
Right click the web project and choose Properties
Go to the Web tab
In the 'Servers' section, change the port in the Project URL box
Repeat for each web project in the solution

Changing the IIS Express port

If All Else Fails

If that doesn't work, you can try to bring up Task Manager and close the IIS Express System Tray (32 bit) process and IIS Express Worker Process (32 bit).

Terminating the IIS Express Worker Thread process

If it still doesn't work, as ni5ni6 pointed out, there is a 'Web Deployment Agent Service' running on the port 80. Use this article to track down which process uses it, and turn it off:

https://sites.google.com/site/anashkb/port-80-in-use

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Open Task Manager and Kill both of these processes   They will autostart back up  Then try debugging your project again

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An excellent answer given by msigman  I just want to add that in windows 10 you can find IIS Express System Tray  32 bit  process under Visual Studio process

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to stop IIS manually     go to start menu type in IIS   you get a search result for the manager  Internet Information Services  IIS  manager  on the right side of it there are restart stop start buttons   If you don t want IIS to start on startup because its really annoying      go to start menu  click control panel  click programs  turn windows features on or off wait until the list is loaded search for Internet Information Services  IIS   uncheck the box  Wait until it s done with the changes  restart computer  but then again the info box will tell you to do that anyways  you can leave this for later if you want to     oh and IIS and xampp basically do the same thing just in a bit different way  ANd if you have Xampp for your projects then its not really all that nessecary to leave it on if you don t ever use it anyways

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Here is a static class implementing Start    Stop    and IsStarted   for IISExpress  It is parametrized by hard-coded static properties and passes invocation information via the command-line arguments to IISExpress  It uses the Nuget package  MissingLinq Linq2Management  which surprisingly provides information missing from System Diagnostics Process  specifically  the command-line arguments that can then be used to help disambiguate possible multiple instances of IISExpress processes  since I don t preserve the process Ids  I presume there is a way to accomplish the same thing with just System Diagnostics Process  but life is short  Enjoy   using System Diagnostics  using System IO  using System Threading  using MissingLinq Linq2Management Context  using MissingLinq Linq2Management Model CIMv2   public static class IisExpress      region Parameters   public static string SiteFolder     C  temp UE Soln 7 Spc Frm Imp     public static uint Port   3001    public static int ProcessStateChangeDelay   10   1000    public static string IisExpressExe     C  Program Files  x86  IIS Express iisexpress exe      endregion    public static void Start           Process Start InvocationInfo       Thread Sleep ProcessStateChangeDelay         public static void Stop           var p   GetWin32Process        if  p    null  return       var pp   Process GetProcessById  int p ProcessId       if  pp    null  return       pp Kill        Thread Sleep ProcessStateChangeDelay         public static bool IsStarted           var p   GetWin32Process        return p    null         static readonly string ProcessName   Path GetFileName IisExpressExe     static string Quote string value    return        value Trim               static string CmdLine       string Format           path  0   port  1          Quote SiteFolder         Port            static readonly ProcessStartInfo InvocationInfo       new ProcessStartInfo                   FileName   IisExpressExe          Arguments   CmdLine          WorkingDirectory   SiteFolder          CreateNoWindow   false          UseShellExecute   true          WindowStyle   ProcessWindowStyle Minimized            static Win32Process GetWin32Process             the linq over ManagementObjectContext implementation is simplistic so we do foreach instead     using  var mo   new ManagementObjectContext          foreach  var p in mo CIMv2 Win32Processes          if  p Name    ProcessName  amp  amp  p CommandLine Contains CmdLine             return p      return null

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I came across the same issue  My aim is to test PHP scripts with Oracle on Windows 7 Home and without thinking installed IIS7 express and as an afterthought considered Apache as a simpler approach  I will explore IIS express s capabilities seperately    The challenge was after installing IIS7 express the Apache installation was playing second fiddle to IIS express and bringing up the Microsoft Homepage   I resolved the port 80 issue by  -   Stopping Microsoft WedMatrix  - net stop was  y Restarted the Apache Server Verifying Apache now was listening on the port   -  netstat -anop Clearing out the Browsers caches - Firefox and IE Running localhost

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You can stop any IIS Express application or you can stop all application  Right click on IIS express icon   which is located at right bottom corner of task bar  Then Select Show All Application

[iis-express] How do I start/stop IIS Express Server?

Closing IIS Express

Changing the Port

If All Else Fails

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