Binding IIS Express to an IP Address

Question

Is it possible to use IIS Express to host pages on a network  Out of the box it can do localhost but I am trying to bind it to an IP address

User · Answer

Below are the complete changes I needed to make to run my x64 bit IIS application using IIS Express, so that it was accessible to a remote host:

iisexpress /config:"C:\Users\test-user\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config" /site:MyWebSite
Starting IIS Express ...
Successfully registered URL "http://192.168.2.133:8080/" for site "MyWebSite" application "/"
Registration completed for site "MyWebSite"
IIS Express is running.
Enter 'Q' to stop IIS Express

The configuration file (applicationhost.config) had a section added as follows:

<sites>
  <site name="MyWebsite" id="2">
    <application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
      <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\build\trunk\MyWebsite" />
    </application>
    <bindings>
      <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation=":8080:192.168.2.133" />
    </bindings>
  </site>

The 64 bit version of the .NET framework can be enabled as follows:

<globalModules>
    <!--
        <add name="ManagedEngine" image="%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\webengine.dll" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv2.0,bitness32" />
        <add name="ManagedEngineV4.0_32bit" image="%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\webengine4.dll" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0,bitness32" />
    -->             
    <add name="ManagedEngine64" image="%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\webengine4.dll" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0,bitness64" />

User · Answer

Change bindingInformation   8080    And remember to turn off the firewall for IISExpress

User · Answer

As mentioned above  edit the application host config  An easy way to find this is run your site in VS using IIS Express  Right click the systray icon  show all applications  Choose your site  and then click on the config link at the bottom to open it   I d suggest adding another binding entry  and leave the initial localhost one there   This additional binding will appear in the IIS Express systray as a separate application under the site   To avoid having to run VS as admin  lots of good reasons not to run as admin   add a netsh rule as follows  obviously replacing the IP and port with your values  - you ll need an admin cmd exe for this  it only needs to be run once   netsh http add urlacl url http   192 168 1 121 51652  user  Everyone   netsh can add rules like url http     51652  but I failed to get this to place nicely with IIS Express  You can use netsh http show urlacl to list existing rules  and they can be deleted with netsh http delete urlacl url blah   Further info  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms733768 aspx

User · Answer

In order for IIS Express answer on any IP address  just leave the address blank  i e   bindingInformation   8080     Don t forget to restart the IIS express before the changes can take place

User · Answer

I think you can    To do this you need to edit applicationhost config file manually  edit bindingInformation   lt ip-address gt   lt port gt   lt host-name gt     To start iisexpress  you need administrator privileges

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