Recreate the default website in IIS

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I ve accidentally deleted the default website in IIS  It no longer shows up in the tree of IIS manager and browsing  localhost  returns a 404 error   I ve re-installed IIS  but the default website still doesn t exist    Is it possible to recreate the default website so I can create my folder inside

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I deleted the C  inetpub folder and reinstalled IIS which recreated the default website and settings

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Try this   In the IIS Manager right click on Web sites  chose New  then Web site     This way you can recreate the Default Web Site   After these steps restart IIS  Right click on local computer  All Tasks  Restart IIS

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Follow these Steps Restore your  Default Website  Website     create a new website set  Default Website  as its name In the Binding section  bottom panel   enter your local IP address in the  IP Address  edit  Keep the  Host  edit empty

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Check out this answer on SuperUser       In short  Reinstall both IIS and WAS       In details -      Step 1      Go to  Add remove programs     Turn windows features on or off    Remove both IIS and WAS  Windows Process Activation Service    Restart the PC   Step 2      Go to  Add remove programs     Turn windows features on or off    Turn on both IIS and WAS  Windows Process Activation Service    Note  Reinstalling IIS alone won t help  You have to reinstall both IIS and WAS   This approach fixed the problem for me

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You can try to restore your previous state by doing the following    Go to IIS Manager Right-click on your Local Computer  Point to All Tasks Point to Backup Restore Configuration Select the configuration you want to restore Wait untill configuration applies

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Other answers are basically right  thanks to them I was able to restore my default web site  they re just missing some more or less important details   This was the complete process to restore the Default Web Site in my case  IIS 7 on Windows 7 64bit     open IIS Manager right click Sites node under your machine in the Connections tree on the left side and click Add Website enter  Default Web Site  as a Site name set Application pool back to DefaultAppPool  set Physical path to  SystemDrive  inetpub wwwroot leave Binding and everything else as is     Possible issues    If the newly created web site cannot be started with the following message      Internet Information Services  IIS  Manager - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process   Exception from HRESULT  0x80070020       it s possible that port 80 is already assigned to another application  Skype in my case     You can change the binding port to e g  8080 by right clicking Default Web Site and selecting Edit Bindings    and Edit     See Error 0x80070020 when you try to start a Web site in IIS 7 0 for details  Or you can just close the application sitting on the port 80  of course  Some applications require Default Web Site to have the ID 1  In my case  it got ID 1 after recreation automatically  If it s not your case  see Re-create    default Website    in IIS after accidentally deleting  It s different for IIS 6 and 7      Note  I had to recreate the Default Web Site  because I wasn t able to even open a project configured to run under IIS in Visual Studio  I had a solution with a couple of projects inside  One of the projects failed to load with the following error message      The Web Application Project  is configured to use IIS  The Web server  http   localhost 8080   could not be found    After I have recreated the Default Web Site in IIS Manager  I was able to reload and open that specific project

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I suppose you want to publish and access your applications websites from LAN  probably as virtual directories under the default website The steps could vary depending on your IIS version  but basically it comes down to these steps   Restore your  Default Website  Website     create a new website set  Default Website  as its name In the Binding section  bottom panel   enter your local IP address in the  IP Address  edit  Keep the  Host  edit empty   that s it  now whenever you type your local ip address in your browser  you will get the website you just added  Now if you want to access any of your other webapplications websites from LAN  just add a virtual application under your default website pointing to the directory containing your published application website  Now you can type   http   yourLocalIPAddress theNameOfYourApplication to access it from your LAN

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Did the same thing  Wasn t able to recreate Default Web Site directly - it kept complaining that the file already existed     I fixed as follows    Create a new web site called something else  eg   Default   pointing to  C  inetpub wwwroot  It should be created with ID 1  at least mine was  Rename the web site to  Default Web Site

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