How can I enable remote requests in IIS Express? Scott Guthrie wrote that is possible but he didn't say how.
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Combining answers in this thread, this is how I fixed it(Visual Studio 2019):
Start Visual Studio as an Administrator and Run your Web Service as you normally do.
Find IIS Express icon on the taskbar, right click on it then click "Show All Applications".
Select your Web Service and note the config path displayed below. Click on the config file to open it for editing.
Find your web service(example search for your port) in this config file then find a line like this:
*:yourport:localhostAdd a new line after that like this:
:yourport:*
In this case no need to create bindings with specific ip address which could change in the future.
I hope this helps someone out there.
The simplest and the coolest way I found was to use (it takes 2 minutes to setup):
It will work with anything running on localhost. Just signup, run little excutable and whatever you run on localhost gets public URL you can access from anywhere.
This is good for showing stuff to your remote team mates, no fiddling with IIS setup or firewalls. Want to stop access just terminate executable.
ngrok authtoken xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ngrok http -host-header=localhost 89230
assuming that 89230 is your IIS Express port
You can also run multiple ports even on free plan
Another way to access external requests is to use IIS instead of IIS Express. In my visual studio, I can just switch easily.
I did all of these steps and nothing helped me. And what I need, it's just to run my app via IIS Express...
Hope it helps.
For me using this, relatively simple, and straight forward:
Download the Visual Studio Extension by searching for 'Conveyor' in the Extensions dialog. Then just install.
form: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-1448185.ConveyorbyKeyoti
I did the following and was able to connect:
1) changed IIS express config binding from local host to '*'
binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:8888:*"
2) Defined inbound rule on firewall to allow the particular port for the protocol type: tcp
3) Add the following command to add network configuration for your port: netsh http add urlacl url=http://*:8888/ user=everyone
[project properties dialog]
For development using VisualStudio 2017 and a NetCore API-project:
1) In Cmd-Box: ipconfig /all to determine IP-address
2a) Enter the retrieved IP-address in Project properties-> Debug Tab
2b) Select a Port and attach that to the IP-address from step 2a.
3) Add an allow rule in the firewall to allow incoming TCP-traffic on the selected Port (my firewall triggered with a dialog: "Block or add rule to firewall"). Add will in that case do the trick.
Disadvantage of the solution above:
1) If you use a dynamic IP-address you need to redo the steps above in case another IP-address has been assigned.
2) You server has now an open Port which you might forget, but this open port remains an invitation for unwanted guests.
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