Using IIS Express to host a website (temporarily)

Question

I have a website (MVC3), which for developement is hosted in IIS Express. (I\'ve run into a bug of Cassini Devserver and had to upgrade...) Now, I\'m wondering, is it possib

Answer 1

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)