Questions tagged [iis-express]

IIS Express is the developer version of full IIS that doesn't require Administrator rights to run. See also the [iis] tag.

IIS Express is the developer version of full IIS, that doesn't require Administrator rights to run. It is designed as a replacement for the ASP.NET Development Server (aka Cassini) which ships with some releases of Visual Studio. IIS Express has several releases so far, and can be downloaded as separate installer or part of Visual Studio.

Official documentation is on IIS.net here and here.

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Create SDDL failed, Error: 1332

I'm trying to use IIS Express with Visual Studio 2010 SP1. I'm following this tutorial. When I run this command. netsh http add urlacl url=https://Melnibone:443/ user=everyone I get this message: Create SDDL failed, Error: 1332 What's happening?
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VS 2012 can't load project which uses IIS with custom binding host - thinks it's using IIS Express

I have an ASP.NET project which uses IIS. IIS site is configured to use custom binding host name. Project file contains following settings: ... false ...
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IIS Express -- Getting SSL to Work

I am unable to get IIS Express to accept secure connections for a VS2010 MVC3 project that I'm developing. I can get it to accept unsecure connections on port 80, but not secure on port 443. I've taken the following steps, based on googling: 1)…
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IIS Express vs Default IIS that comes with Windows 7

I am new to the world of IIS and I wanted to know the following... I have heard about IIS Express. I run Windows 7 Ultimate and have installed the IIS that comes packaged with Windows 7. As a developer, is there any major benefit for me if I…
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IISExpress User Interface

I have just downloaded and installed IIS express and it all works well running it from the command line: But how do i configure options for it, is there a standalone windows interface for it like IIS Manager or do you have do do everything manually…
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How to start IIS Express Manually

Is there a command line program or service that I can use to start IIS Express manually?
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IIS Express - 500.19 Cannot read configuration file - because it's looking at the wrong path

I recently renamed my root TFS folder from D:\TFS\systemstfs to D:\TFS\sys because one of the project's paths was too long for Windows. Now, when I attempt to run a different project (D:\TFS\sys\companydomain.com\Dev\Flowers\wsBusinessLayer) in…
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What is the file location of applicationhost.config in the different versions of IIS?

What is the exact file path of the applicationhost.config file in the different versions of IIS, for example: IIS 7, 7.5, 8, 8.5 and 10?
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Using IIS Express to host a website (temporarily)

I have a website (MVC3), which for developement is hosted in IIS Express. (I've run into a bug of Cassini Devserver and had to upgrade...) Now, I'm wondering, is it possible to let other machines on my local net (behind router) see the site as…
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How can I force IIS Express to run in 32 bit mode?

I have a classic ASP app that I'm trying to run under IIS Express on 64 bit Windows. It uses Jet to connect to a Microsoft Access database and will not work under 64 bit. I have created the following application pool for the ASP app, but it seems to…
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Unable To Launch Web Server

I have asp.net web application project in visual studio 2012. When I want to start it, I have the following error: Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server: Port"4012" is in use This problem came from nothing.How can I resolve it ?
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How do I start/stop IIS Express Server?

I have installed MS Visual Web Developer 2010 which includes IIS Express. Before this, I had installed XAMPP server for my php applications. I would like to know how can I stop IIS in order to be able to start XAMPP? It appears that they use the…
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Starting and stopping IIS Express programmatically

I am trying to build a small application in C# which should start/stop an IIS Express worker process. For this purpose I want to use the official "IIS Express API" which is documented on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg418415.aspx As…
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Visual Studio 2017 gives 'Adding the Certificate to The Trusted Root Certificates store failed with the following Errror'

I am trying to run ASP MVC application with SSL mode set to true and whenever i run the application, i get prompt to trust the IIS Express SSL certificate. Upon clicking Yes, it gives the error message 'Adding the Certificate to The Trusted Root…
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Visual Studio website is redirecting http to https when debugging

I am having an issue with IIS express or Visual Studio 2013. The site has NO https or ssl enabled or setup in the properties. When I click debug, the site launches in the broswer and tries to load: http://localhost:61488/Default.aspx it then for…
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