ASP.NET 5 MVC: unable to connect to web server 'IIS Express'

Question

What I\'m doing:

• Opening Visual Studio Community 2015
• File -> New -> Project
• Under Visual C#: Web -> ASP.NET Web Application
• Web App

Answer 1

I had this same issue, but the way I fixed it was by going to the applicationhost.config and remove a port which was not added by me (IIS Express I would guess) which placed my specific port site on another port.

Here is what the config file had for my bindings:

I removed the first bindings item as the only port I wanted was 44360. My config file now looks like this:

Now I don't see the error when I debug.

I also noticed my second API in my project had port 80 also assigned to it, I removed that as well.