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I've just started to work on a MVC project. It's a web portal. I've set my sites on my local IIS 6.0 But when I want to start debugging, I get this error:

Unable to start debugging on the web server. The debugger cannot connect to the remote computer. The debugger was unable to resolve the specified computer name.

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I don't understand that when I want to debug my project locally, what "Remote computer" it's talking about??!!

Please help me guys, this is my first task in this company and I have to overcome this error.

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Check all the steps outlined here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dwesw3ee.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

If you're using a hosts file, make sure you have an entry for the site in question. That was the problem for me, when I encountered this message.

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  • Thank you, your link helped me to resolve the issue. In my case, I needed to add IUSR & IIS_IUSRS to the permissions and also, I needed to modify etc/hosts file. Now, it is working like a charm. – rchrd Jan 10 '20 at 09:49
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I have similar problem. My first solution delete url site from iis repositories and project properties write localhost and port number if is it. And debug began working without restart. I also think, may be if add new url in windows host file this can fix this trouble but may be need restat iis or visual studio.

IIS IIS Project properties Project properties

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