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 simply toggled on "Enable SSL". This solved my problem.

1. Right click web project
2. Debug tab
3. Toggle Enable SSL "on" (if it is off, which was my case)