Access IIS Express Website From Remote Machine

IIS Express Run From a Remote Machine

Sometimes, running a web application using IIS Express using localhost is fine, but if you want to use the IP address and port to access it from another machine, then you need to configure IIS Express. For example, if you see this error:

You can get to the IIS Express settings applicationhost.config by going to IISExpress\config in your documents folder.

The important section of the config file are the sites listings:

<site name="WebApplication1" id="45">
<application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/" 
physicalPath="C:\visual_studio_projects\WebApplication1\WebApplication1" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:60106:localhost" />
</bindings>
</site>

To access it from another machine, you need to add an extra entry for the binding like this:

<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:60106:192.168.234.12" />

But after restarting IIS Express which is accessible from the try icon, you may get this:

Usually, all you need to do is start a command console as administrator and run this command:

netsh http add urlacl url=http://192.168.234.12:60106/ user=everyone

To delete the same urlacl, run this:

netsh http delete urlacl url=http://192.168.234.12:60106/

But sometimes, that does not always work and you still cannot run the web application by its IP address. The other approach is to run Visual Studio as administrator. This can be tedious every time you start Visual Studio up, so find its executable which is usually under:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio {version}\Common7\IDE

Right click the devenv.exe icon and choose properties. Then select the compatibility tab.

Change the Privilege Level to run as administrator like this:

You can also choose to change this setting for all users if you wish.

Now, you should be able to run your web application from another machine such as virtual machine.

Happy coding!

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