iis-express

I'm attempting to test a website I have running in a local IISExpress instance with some other machines / devices on my local network. I am running Win7 Pro. When I first attempt to browse to my machine from another machine on my local network segment, I get a 400 error: Hostname is invalid. I understand that I need to grant remote access to the ACL with a command on the elevated command prompt like: netsh http add urlacl url=http://mymachinename:50333/ user=everyone Now I get a 503 service is unavailable error. Windows Firewall is currently shut off, and I am able to browse my local

This question already has an answer here: How to enable external request in IIS Express? 23 answers Is it possible to use IIS Express to host pages on a network. Out of the box it can do localhost but I am trying to bind it to an IP address. vikomall I think you can. To do this you need to edit applicationhost.config file manually (edit bindingInformation ' <ip-address>:<port>:<host-name> ') To start iisexpress, you need administrator privileges Anthony Ludmilin In order for IIS Express answer on any IP address, just leave the address blank, i.e: bindingInformation=":8080:" Don't forget to

I'm trying to pick up the windows username when debugging in Visual Studio 2013. I am simply using: httpcontext.current.user.identity.name If I run this on my Dev Server it works fine, if I run it in debug mode on any previous version of Visual Studio it also works fine. My problems is - If i run this on visual studio 2013 I get an empty string. My web config is as follows. <system.web> <authentication mode="Windows"/> <identity impersonate="false"/> <authorization> <allow users="*"/> </authorization> <compilation debug="true" strict="false" explicit="true" targetFramework="4.0"/>