I was having similar problem in visual studio 2012: ERROR: ” Unable to launch IIS Express web server. Failed to register URL http://localhost:1030/ for site “MySite” application “https://stackoverflow.com/”. Error Description: The process cannot use file because it is being used by another process. (0x85968574) “ REASON : Actually this port numbers are dynamically generated at … Read more
For the “big” IIS versions since IIS 7, the location is always the same: %windir%\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config For IIS Express there is one per user, the default location is: %USERPROFILE%\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config again it’s the same for all versions. You can run multiple instances of IIS Express per user, you would need to specify the location of the applicationhost.config … Read more
By default IIS Express serves only localhost requests. To serve external requests edit applicationhost.config file (located in %userprofile%\documents\iisexpress\config\) and change localhost to ‘*’ or your machine name. (remember for non-localhost binding you must be running as administrator or set URL acl as an administrator and then run iisexpress as non-administrator)
Here is another possible solution that doesn’t involve fishing for the applicationhost.config file: Right click Web Project > Web > Project Url > (e.g. ‘localhost:5459’) and then increment the port number which will force a new entry in that file. In my case I also needed to change authentication mode which can be done via: … Read more
iisexpress program is responsible for that. http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/using-iis-express/running-iis-express-from-the-command-line
IIS Express is a lightweight version of IIS and it doesn’t ship with the the admin UI tool like IIS Manager. You could install WebMatrix, but it only allows you to configure few settings (binding, default documents, SSL). The options you have today: you can use appcmd.exe command line tool that can be found in … Read more
Here are the differences from http://www.mywindowsclub.com/resources/3302-Key-differences-between-IIS-IIS-Developer.aspx. If you already have IIS installed – its a better product. IIS express would only be used by people who don’t have access to IIS or want something that is lighter than IIS but more like IIS than Cassini. Integrated with OS IIS 7 ships with the operating system … Read more
After you’ve set a project to use IISExpress, press F4 while the project is selected on the solution explorer to bring up the properties and in the properties set SSL Enable set true and under SSL URL set the URL with the port (443 in your case) you want for the SSL. This works for … Read more
Opening as an Administrator didn’t fix the problem for me. What fixed it for me was opening both the .csproj and .csproj.user files and ensuring that both had UseIISExpress set to false. In my case, the .csproj.user file was overriding the .csproj file even though SaveServerSettingsInUserFile was marked false. <Project ToolsVersion=”12.0″ xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003″> <PropertyGroup> <UseIISExpress>false</UseIISExpress> <!– … Read more
Well, I have found the problem. I’m running Windows 7 in Spanish, so the right command is: netsh http add urlacl url=https://Melnibone:443/ user=todos Funny, isn’t it? UPDATE: If you want, you can add a comment to this question telling us how it is in your language.