Recreate the default website in IIS

Question

I\'ve accidentally deleted the default website in IIS; It no longer shows up in the tree of IIS manager and browsing \"localhost\" returns a 404 error.

I\'ve re-inst

Answer 1

Check out this answer on SuperUser:

In short: Reinstall both IIS and WAS.

In details -

Step 1

Go to "Add remove programs" "Turn windows features on or off" Remove both IIS and WAS (Windows Process Activation Service) Restart the PC Step 2

Go to "Add remove programs" "Turn windows features on or off" Turn on both IIS and WAS (Windows Process Activation Service) Note: Reinstalling IIS alone won't help. You have to reinstall both IIS and WAS

This approach fixed the problem for me.