Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server, Failed to register URL, Access is denied

Question

Some web projects are causing me problems while others work fine. I decided to focus on one of the problematic ones. I\'m using Visual Studio 2013 on Windows 7. I think I\'m

Answer 1

This happened with me when I was trying to access my site from a remote location:

At first, applicationhost.config (VS2015) contained the standard:

In order to access my site from a remote location within the network, I added (step 1):

Then, I entered into CMD with Admin rights (step 2):

netsh http add urlacl url=http://*:64376/ user=Everyone

As step 3, I added it a rule to the firewall.

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=”IISExpressWeb” dir=in protocol=tcp localport=64376 profile=private,domain remoteip=localsubnet action=allow

Then, I got this error when trying to run the solution again.

Solution: I seemed to have done everything right, but it did not work until I ran netsh also for the existing localhost rule:

netsh http add urlacl url=http://localhost:64376/ user=Everyone

Now, it works again.