Viewing my IIS hosted site on other machines on my network

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At home I have a simple network setup containing 2 machines   On one machine i have a site hosted with IIS7  Rather than the standard localhost index htm address I have added an entry in the HOSTS file pointing the local IP  127 0 0 1  to this domain - www mysite dev   I can access the site with www mysite dev with no problem   what I would like to do is be able to view this site from my other machine on the network   Initially I assumed this could be done with a URL like so  MACHINE-NAME www mysite dev  but the connection always times out  But I can ping MACHINE-NAME without problems   For testing purposes I have disabled the windows firewall on both machines but to no joy   Like a typical web developer  my hardware network skills are pretty poor   Can anyone see where I m going wrong

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Open firewall settings  Then search for something like - Allow program or feature to allow through firewall  If in the list  World Wide Web services  HTTP  is unchecked  check it and restart the system    Our machine is all set to accept inbound requests

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In addition to modifying your firewall  don t forget to add port binding too   Open   SolutionDir   vs config applicationHost config and find binding definitions  should be something like this   lt sites gt       lt site name  Samples Html5 Web  id  1  gt           lt application path     applicationPool  Clr4IntegratedAppPool  gt               lt virtualDirectory path     physicalPath  C  Git Samples Html5 Web    gt           lt  application gt           lt bindings gt               lt binding protocol  http  bindingInformation    63000 localhost    gt           lt  bindings gt       lt  site gt           lt  sites gt    Just add extra lines to reflect your machine IP and designated port   lt bindings gt       lt binding protocol  http  bindingInformation    63000 localhost    gt       lt binding protocol  http  bindingInformation    63000 10 0 0 201    gt   lt  bindings gt    Source  https   blog falafel com expose-iis-express-site-local-network

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You have to do following steps   Go to IIS -  Sites-  Click on Your Web site -  In Action Click on Edit Permissions -  Security -  Click on ADD -  Advanced -  Find Now -  Add all the users in it -  and grant all permissions to other users -  click on Ok   If you do above things properly you can access your web site by using your domain  Suggestion - Do not add host name to your site it creates problem sometime  So please host your web site using your machines ip address

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Full worked solution on 2021  The binding with IP is not worked  The asterisk solved the problem   lt bindings gt      lt binding protocol  quot http quot  bindingInformation  quot   63000 localhost quot    gt      lt binding protocol  quot http quot  bindingInformation  quot   63000   quot    gt   lt  bindings gt   https   www theancientscroll com tech 4-steps-aspnet-web-apps-lan 753

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First of all  try to connect to the LAN IP of your server  If IIS is set up with only one web site  chances are that your site is going to pop up   If you want to access it by name  you would have to add an entry in the HOSTS file of every client PC you want to view the site with  not to 127 0 0 1 obviously  but to the local IP address of your server    Also  your Firewall needs to be configured to accept incoming calls on Port 80   This is usually the point where it makes more sense to set up a DNS service that you can register names like  mysite dev  with centrally  without having to dabble with hosts files  But that s a different story  and belongs to superuser com or serverfault com

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As others said your Firewall needs to be configured to accept incoming calls on TCP Port 80   in win 7    easy wizardry way    go to windows firewall with advance security Inbound Rules -  Action -  New Rule select Predefined radio button and then select the last item - World Wide Web Services HTTP    click next and leave the next steps as they are  allow the connection        Because outbound traffic from server to outside world  is allowed by default  it means for example http responses that web server is sending back to outside users and requests  But inbound  traffic  originating from outside world to the server  is blocked by default like the user web requests originating from their browser which cannot reach the web server by default and you must open it     You can also take a closer look at inbound and outbound rules at this page

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It might be late  but for any other person who may get such an issue in future  for any connections you want to make to the server  in this case the machine that hosts the web application  regardless if it is iis or xampp  you need to allow connection or traffic through the specific port that will be used in the firewall  1  Go to Windows Firewall - gt  Advanced settings 2  Click Inbound Rules - gt  Then New Rule 3  Select Port - gt  Next 4  Specific local ports - gt  Add the Port you want to allow 5  Allow All Connections 6  Enter a name and a description for to help you remember later on   and you Done

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Very Late Answer but I will highlight some point as I had to deal with it years ago setting up my IIS site across network   Both your machines should be connected to the same network  same wireless network is fine  Access your remote machine via IP 168 192 x x or via http   his-pc-name  do not forget the http part  This will server the default IIS page on the remote machine  same that is served through localhost   If you want to server another site   you have to make that default  first1    Make sure your IIS is working fine on remote machine by checking localhost which should served the default site  Also make sure your firewall is configured to allow connection via port 80 or you can just disable firewall for the time being for testing purposes

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Control Panel gt System and Security gt Windows Firewall gt Allowed Programs- gt  then check all   World Wide Web Services Http  tab      Its worked for me

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After installing antivirus I faced this issue and I noticed that my firewall automatically set as on  Now I just set firewall off  and it solved my issue   Hope it will help someone

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127 0 0 1 always points to localhost  On your home network you should have an IP address assigned by your internet router  dsl cablemodem whatever   You need to bind your website to this address  You should then be able to use the machine name to get to the website  but I would recommend actually editing the hosts file of the client computer in question to point a specific name at that computer  The hosts file can be found at c  windows system32 drivers etc hosts  use notepad  and the entry would look like   192 168 1 1     mycomputername

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If you re hosting website on a specific port in IIS like 4321 then you d have to allow this port through Windows Firewall too  Here re the steps that I followed along with the imanabidi s answer to get it work for me    Windows Firewall   Advanced settings Inbound Rules   New Rule Select Port   Next Specific local ports   Add the Port you want to allow Allow All Connections Enter a name and some description so that you remember it later on Done

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