Connecting to Visual Studio debugging IIS Express server over the lan

Question

I have a test ASP.NET MVC3 application developed in VS2012. When I start debugging the app is accessed from the host machine via the request to http://localhost:

Answer 1

How to avoid running Visual Studio as an administrator

Using both Garret's and @shangkeyun's answer you can achieve connecting to the running website without needing to run Visual Studio as an admin user:

1. Open %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config
2. Search for your site using name=MySiteName
3. Duplicate the existing item in the section. You should now have two lines with binding.
4. Remove the "localhost" part in bindingInformation.

5. It should now look like this, assuming the port is 12345:

6. Enable non-admin to bind to port

   netsh http add urlacl url=http://*:12345/ user=Everyone
   

EDIT 2019: gregmac added a step to whitelist the VS instance. I never needed this, but listing it anyway:

7. netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="IISExpress visualstudio app" protocol=tcp localport=12345 dir=in action=allow