You should be able to accomplish this in one of two ways. You can remove the old project, or change its port using WebMatrix, which has an administration interface for IIS Express. You can also do it by hand, by modifying the applicationhost.config file directly. The file is located in the %userprofile%\documents\IISexpress\config folder. You can … Read more
SOLUTION This means that you are missing the right for using it. Create it with Netsh Commands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol > add urlacl. Open “Command Line Interface (CLI)” called “Command shell” with Win+R write “cmd” Open CLI windows like administrator with mouse context menu on opened windows or icon “Run as administrator” Insert command … Read more
I had this problem. There is a hidden folder in directory of project that name is ‘.vs’. Close the Visual Studio and delete this folder. The problem will be solved.
This option is now part of Vs 2013 / 2015 / 2017: Tools | Options | Projects and Solutions | Web Projects | Use the 64 bit version of IIS Express
If using VS2015, close the solution, delete the following file, then re-open the solution. <<path_to_solution_folder>>\.vs\config\applicationhost.config note the .vs folder may be hidden
Closing IIS Express By default Visual Studio places the IISExpress icon in your system tray at the lower right hand side of your screen, by the clock. You can right click it and choose exit. If you don’t see the icon, try clicking the small arrow to view the full list of icons in the … Read more
I believe this is caused by HSTS – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security If you have (developed) any other localhost sites which send a HSTS header… eg. Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload …then depending on the value of max-age, future requests to localhost will be required to be served over HTTPS. To get around this, I did the following. … Read more
Note: Adding the OP’s solution from the question as an answer. This is what worked for me. deleted all localhost certificates. ran repair IIS Express in Add/Remove Programs. Copy and pasted localhost certificate from Personal/Certificate to Trusted Root Certificates and it didn’t complain anymore. Repairing/reinstalling IIS Express does not appear to actually fix this issue … Read more
I was trying to do similar thing. I concluded that the COM library provided by Microsoft is incomplete. I don’t use it because the doc mentioned that “Note: This topic is pre-release documentation and is subject to change in future releases”. So, I decided to take a look at what IISExpressTray.exe is doing. It seems … Read more
For Visual Studio 2013 Visual Studio 2015 Visual Studio 2017 Visual Studio 2019: Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> Web Projects -> Uncheck “Use the 64 bit version of IIS Express for web sites and projects”`