How to enable external request in IIS Express

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How can I enable remote requests in IIS Express  Scott Guthrie wrote that is possible but he didn t say how

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This is insanely awesome and even covers HTTPS with pretty domain names:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WorkingWithSSLAtDevelopmentTimeIsEasierWithIISExpress.aspx

The really awesome parts I couldn't find anywhere else on SO in case the above link ever goes away:

> C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express>IisExpressAdminCmd.exe Usage:
> iisexpressadmincmd.exe <command> <parameters> Supported commands:
>       setupFriendlyHostnameUrl -url:<url>
>       deleteFriendlyHostnameUrl -url:<url>
>       setupUrl -url:<url>
>       deleteUrl -url:<url>
>       setupSslUrl -url:<url> -CertHash:<value>
>       setupSslUrl -url:<url> -UseSelfSigned
>       deleteSslUrl -url:<url>
> 
> Examples: 1) Configure "http.sys" and "hosts" file for friendly
> hostname "contoso": iisexpressadmincmd setupFriendlyHostnameUrl
> -url:http://contoso:80/ 2) Remove "http.sys" configuration and "hosts" file entry for the friendly  hostname "contoso": iisexpressadmincmd
> deleteFriendlyHostnameUrl -url:http://contoso:80/

The above utility will register the SSL certificate for you! If you use the -UseSelfSigned option, it's super easy.

If you want to do things the hard way, the non-obvious part is you need to tell HTTP.SYS what certificate to use, like this:

netsh http add sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:443 appid={214124cd-d05b-4309-9af9-9caa44b2b74a} certhash=YOURCERTHASHHERE

Certhash is the "Thumbprint" you can get from the certificate properties in MMC.

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I had a local IIS enabled so i just created a rewrite rule to my debugging port    I think this is better and cooler than other method because it is easier to remove once am done developing    Here is how the rewrite looks     lt rewrite gt       lt rules gt           lt rule name  ReverseProxyInboundRule1  stopProcessing  true  gt               lt match url   dev         gt               lt action type  Rewrite  url  http   localhost 47039  R 1     gt           lt  rule gt       lt  rules gt   lt  rewrite gt    VS also allows you to develop using your local IIS directly  which then allows remote connections  but in turn you must always run it as an administrator    I dont like that

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If you re working with Visual Studio then follow these steps to access the IIS-Express over IP-Adress    Get your host IP-Adress  ipconfig in Windows Command Line GoTo     SolutionDir   vs config applicationHost config  Find     lt site name  WebApplication3  id  2  gt      lt application path     applicationPool  Clr4IntegratedAppPool  gt         lt virtualDirectory path     physicalPath  C  Users user name Source Repos protoype-one WebApplication3    gt      lt  application gt      lt bindings gt        lt binding protocol  http  bindingInformation    62549 localhost    gt      lt  bindings gt   lt  site gt   Add   lt binding protocol  http  bindingInformation    62549 192 168 178 108   gt  with your IP-Adress Run your Visual Studio with Administrator rights and everything should work Maybe look for some firewall issues if you try to connect from remote

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A good resource is Working with SSL at Development Time is easier with IISExpress by Scott Hanselman   What you re after is the section Getting IIS Express to serve externally over Port 80

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Another way to access external requests is to use IIS instead of IIS Express   In my visual studio  I can just switch easily

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Nothing worked for me until I found iisexpress-proxy    Open command prompt as administrator  then run  npm install -g iisexpress-proxy   then  iisexpress-proxy 51123 to 81   assuming your Visual Studio project opens on localhost 51123 and you want to access on external IP address x x x x 81  Edit  I am currently using ngrok

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I remember running into the same problems while trying this workflow a few months ago   Which is why I wrote a simple proxy utility specifically for this kind of scenario  https   github com icflorescu iisexpress-proxy   Using the IIS Express Proxy  it all becomes quite simple     no need to    netsh http add urlacl url vaidesg 8080  user everyone    or to mess up with your    applicationhost config      Just issue this in command prompt   iisexpress-proxy 8080 to 3000     and then you can point your remote devices to http   vaidesg 3000   Most of the times simpler IS better

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For me using this  relatively simple  and straight forward  Download the Visual Studio Extension by searching for  Conveyor  in the Extensions dialog  Then just install  form  https   marketplace visualstudio com items itemName vs-publisher-1448185 ConveyorbyKeyoti

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There s a blog post up on the IIS team site now explaining how to enable remote connections on IIS Express  Here is the pertinent part of that post summarized   On Vista and Win7  run the following command from an administrative prompt  netsh http add urlacl url http   vaidesg 8080  user everyone For XP  first install Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools  Then run the following command from an administrative prompt  httpcfg set urlacl  u http   vaidesg1 8080   a D  A  GX   WD

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I solved it with the installation of  Conveyor by Keyoti  in Visual Studio Professional 2015  Conveyor generate a REMOTE address  your IP  with a port  45455  that enable external request  Example     Conveyor allows you test web applications from from external tablets and phones on your network or from Android emulators  without http   10 0 2 2  lt hostport gt    The steps are in the following link    https   marketplace visualstudio com items itemName vs-publisher-1448185 ConveyorbyKeyoti

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You may try setting up port forwarding instead of trying to modify your IIS Express config  adding new HTTP sys rules or running Visual Studio as an Admin    Basically you need to forward the IP PORT your website runs at to some other free port on your machine but on the external network adapter  not localhost    The thing is that IIS Express  at least on Windows 10  binds to    1  port meaning it listens on IPv6 port  You need to take this into account   Here is how I made this work - http   programmingflow com 2017 02 25 iis-express-on-external-ip html  Hope it helps

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I solved this problem by using reverse proxy approach   I installed wamp server and used simple reverse proxy feature of apache web server   I added a new port to listen to Apache web server  8081   Then I added proxy configuration as virtualhost for that port    lt VirtualHost   8081 gt  ProxyPass   http   localhost 46935  ProxyPassReverse   http   localhost 46935   lt  VirtualHost gt

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What helped me  was right clicking the  IISExpress  icon   Show All applications   Then selecting the website and I saw which aplicationhost config it uses  and the the correction went perfectly

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The simplest and the coolest way I found was to use  it takes 2 minutes to setup    https   ngrok com   It will work with anything running on localhost  Just signup  run little excutable and whatever you run on localhost gets public URL you can access from anywhere    This is good for showing stuff to your remote team mates  no fiddling with IIS setup or firewalls  Want to stop access just terminate executable   ngrok authtoken xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  ngrok http -host-header localhost 89230   assuming that 89230 is your IIS Express port  You can also run multiple ports even on free plan

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If you have tried Colonel Panic s answer but doesn t work in Visual Studio  try this   Append another  lt binding   gt  in your IIS Express config   lt bindings gt       lt binding protocol  http  bindingInformation    8080 localhost    gt       lt binding protocol  http  bindingInformation    8080 hostname    gt   lt  bindings gt    Finally  you have to run Visual Studio as Admin

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As a sidenote to this   netsh http add urlacl url http   vaidesg 8080  user everyone   This will only work on English versions of Windows  If you are using a localized version you have to replace  everyone  with something else  for example     Iedereen  when using a Dutch version  Jeder  when using a German version  Mindenki  when using a Hungarian version   Otherwise you will get an error  Create SDDL failed  Error  1332

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Combining answers in this thread  this is how I fixed it Visual Studio 2019    Start Visual Studio as an Administrator and Run your Web Service as you normally do   Find IIS Express icon on the taskbar  right click on it then click  quot Show All Applications quot    Select your Web Service and note the config path displayed below  Click on the config file to open it for editing   Find your web service example search for your port  in this config file then find a line like this    yourport localhost  Add a new line after that like this   yourport     In this case no need to create bindings with specific ip address which could change in the future  I hope this helps someone out there

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I was unable to serve iis requests to other users in my local network  all I had to do  in addition to the above  was restart my BT Hub router

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I have some problems using IIS Express in Win 8 1 and external request   I follow this steps to debug the external request     Install IIS Configure Visual Studio to use local IIS  Page properties in your Web Project  Create a exclusive AppPool in IIS to work with my application In my Project I m using Oracle Client and must be 32bits  64 bits don t work with Visual Studio  then I need allow 32 bit in Application Pool Configure the Windows firewall to allow request in port 80  inbound rules    It s working

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If you run  Visual Studio from Admin you can add just   lt binding protocol  http  bindingInformation    8080      gt   or    lt binding protocol  https  bindingInformation    8443      gt   into   userprofile  My Documents IISExpress config applicationhost config

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project properties dialog   For development using VisualStudio 2017 and a NetCore API-project   1  In Cmd-Box  ipconfig  all to determine IP-address  2a  Enter the retrieved IP-address in Project properties-  Debug Tab  2b  Select a Port and attach that to the IP-address from step 2a   3  Add an allow rule in the firewall to allow incoming TCP-traffic on the selected Port   my firewall triggered with a dialog   Block or add rule to firewall    Add will in that case do the trick   Disadvantage of the solution above   1  If you use a dynamic IP-address you need to redo the steps above in case another IP-address has been assigned   2  You server has now an open Port which you might forget   but this open port remains an invitation for unwanted guests

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There are three changes you might need to make     Tell IIS Express itself to bind to all ip addresses and hostnames  In your  config file  Typically    VS 2015    solutionDir   vs config applicationhost config  lt  VS 2015   userprofile  My Documents IISExpress config applicationhost config    Find your site s binding element  and add       lt binding protocol  http  bindingInformation    8080      gt     Setup the bit of Windows called  http sys   As an administrator  run the command        netsh http add urlacl url http     8080  user everyone   Where everyone is a windows group  Use double quotes for groups with spaces like  Tout le monde     Allow IIS Express through Windows firewall       Start   Windows Firewall with Advanced Security   Inbound Rules   New Rule         Program  ProgramFiles  IIS Express iisexpress exe   OR Port 8080 TCP    Now when you start iisexpress exe you should see a message such as     Successfully registered URL  http     8080   for site  hello world  application

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The accepted answer to this question is a guide for getting IIS Express to work with webmatrix  I found this guide more useful when trying to get it to work with VS 2010   I just followed steps 3  amp  4  running IIS Express as administrator  and had to temporarily disable my firewall to get it working

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I did all of these steps and nothing helped me   And what I need  it s just to run my app via IIS Express        Hope it helps

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This is what I did for Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2015 to enable remote access  both with http and https   First step is to bind your application to your internal IP address  Run cmd -  ipconfig to get the address  Open the file   project folder   vs config applicationhost config and scroll down until you find something like this    lt site name  Project Web  id  2  gt       lt application path     gt           lt virtualDirectory path     physicalPath  C  Project Project Web    gt       lt  application gt       lt bindings gt           lt binding protocol  http  bindingInformation    12345 localhost    gt       lt  bindings gt   lt  site gt    Add two new bindings under bindings  You can use HTTPS as well if you like    lt binding protocol  http  bindingInformation    12345 192 168 1 15    gt   lt binding protocol  https  bindingInformation    44300 192 168 1 15    gt    Add the following rule to your firewall  open a new cmd prompt as admin and run the following commands   netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name  IISExpressWeb  dir in protocol tcp localport 12345 profile private remoteip localsubnet action allow  netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name  IISExpressWebHttps  dir in protocol tcp localport 44300 profile private remoteip localsubnet action allow   Now start Visual Studio as Administrator  Right click the web projects project file and select Properties  Go to the Web tab  and click Create Virtual Directory  If Visual Studio is not run as Administrator this will probably fail  Now everything should work

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I did the following and was able to connect   1  changed IIS express config binding from local host to      binding protocol  http  bindingInformation    8888      2  Defined inbound rule on firewall to allow the particular port  for the protocol type  tcp  3  Add the following command to add network configuration for your port   netsh http add urlacl url http     8888  user everyone

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