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

My issue turned out to be that I had SSL Enabled on the project settings. I simply disabled this because I did not require SSL for running the project locally.

In Visual Studio 2015:

• Select the project in the Solution Explorer.
• In the Properties window set SSL Enabled to False.
• I was able to run the project.

In my situation I was getting an error about port 443 in use because this was the port set on the SSL URL for the project.