Exposing localhost to the internet via tunneling (using ngrok): HTTP error 400: bad request; invalid hostname

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Answer 1

This didn't work for me. you could do the following:

For IIS Express

In VS 2015: Go to the .vs\config\applicationhost.config folder in your project

In VS 2013 and earlier: Go to %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config

Find the binding that says:

For me it was a project running on port 5219

change it to

IIS Express will now accept all incoming connections on that port.

Disadvantage: you need to run IIS Express as admin.

or you could rewrite the host header in Ngrok:

ngrok.exe http -host-header=rewrite localhost:5219