I modified the default application host file to enable remote connection to my IISExpress. As I learned here, I modified the bindings as follows:
<sites>
<site name="Development Web Site" id="1" serverAutoStart="true">
<application path="/">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="%IIS_BIN%\AppServer\empty_wwwroot" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:80:*" />
</bindings>
</site>
<sites>
When starting the service, I get this:
C:\Program Files\IIS Express>iisexpress /path:c:\iis\ /port:80
Copied template config file
'C:\Program Files\IIS Express\AppServer\applicationhost.config'
to 'C:\DOCUME~1\test\LOCALS~1\Temp\iisexpress\applicationhost201311513534137.config'
Updated configuration file 'C:\DOCUME~1\test\LOCALS~1\Temp\iisexpress\applicationhost201311513534137.config' with given cmd line info.
Starting IIS Express ...
Successfully registered URL "http://localhost:80/" for site "Development Web Site" application "/"
Registration completed IIS Express is running. Enter 'Q' to stop IIS Express
And in the actual config file I have this:
<site name="Development Web Site" id="1" serverAutoStart="true">
<application path="/">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="c:\iis\" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation=":80:localhost" />
</bindings>
</site>
As the server is bound to localhost, I can't access it remotely.
How can I force the setting to take effect?
Solution: use the /config switch and assign a specific config file so it won't copy the default file and doesn't modify it uncontrollably.
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I have a virtual directory set up in local IIS to serve up images but when the web page runs it gives a 404 for the images and shows that it is looking at the physical path for the website not the path specified for the virtual directory
I have things set like this:
IIS7.5
Site is MyWebSite
physical path is c:\mywebsite
virtual directory for MyWebSite\images has physical path c:\myimages
I can see everything including files in the virtual directory
Binding
http 127.0.0.1 port 80 (also tried port 59925)
host header is MyWebSite
Visual Studio
Properties>Web set to run in local IIS
project url is set to: http://localhost/mywebsite
Windows host file the last line is
127.0.0.1 localhost
I also tried
127.0.0.1 localhost/mywebsite
127.0.0.1 mywebsite
I run the site from visual studio and it runs fine except for the images. Clicking on the link in page source opens an error page with a 404 error. The physical path shown is c:mywebsite instead of c:\myimages.
I am assuming something is wrong with something in the setup above but not sure what it is.
Edit
the url in the page source is a relative one
img src=../../myimages/myimage.jpg
Requested URL http://localhost:80/mywebsite/mymages/image.jpg
Physical Path C:\MyWebSite\myimages\image.jpg
**Edit 2 ** here are the site bindings
<sites>
<site name="Default Web Site" id="1">
<application path="/">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot" />
</application>
<application path="/WebSiteManager2019" applicationPool="DefaultAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\MyWebSite" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:80:" />
</bindings>
</site>
<site name="MyWebSite" id="3" serverAutoStart="true">
<application path="/" applicationPool="MyWebSite">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\MyWebSite" />
<virtualDirectory path="/images" physicalPath="C:\MyImages" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="127.0.0.1:80:MyWebSite" />
</bindings>
</site>
<siteDefaults>
<logFile logFormat="W3C" directory="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\LogFiles" />
<traceFailedRequestsLogging directory="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\FailedReqLogFiles" />
</siteDefaults>
<applicationDefaults applicationPool="DefaultAppPool" />
<virtualDirectoryDefaults allowSubDirConfig="true" />
</sites>
I'm implementing OAuth authentication in a MVC6 site using VS2015 RC. The previous incarnation of the site required a custom binding and I'm trying to achieve the same with VS2015. Debugging with IIS Express, however, is proving difficult.
If I amend the dnx "web" command to use an alternate url, all works as expected:
"commands": {
"web": "Microsoft.AspNet.Hosting --server Microsoft.AspNet.Server.WebListener --server.urls http://www.devurl.co.uk:31122",
"gen": "Microsoft.Framework.CodeGeneration",
"ef": "EntityFramework.Commands"
},
If I try and do the same thing with IIS Express by changing the applicationhost.config file (within the project/.vs/config folder as per Wildcard hostname in IIS Express + VS 2015)...
<sites>
<site name="WebApp1" id="1">
<!-- removed for brevity -->
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:31122:www.devurl.co.uk" />
</bindings>
</site>
<!-- removed for brevity -->
</sites>
...a new site entry is with a binding to "localhost".
<sites>
<site name="WebApp1" id="1">
<!-- removed for brevity -->
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:31122:www.devurl.co.uk" />
</bindings>
</site>
<site name="WebApp1(1)" id="2">
<!-- removed for brevity -->
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:31122:localhost" />
</bindings>
</site>
<!-- removed for brevity -->
</sites>
The site is now running using the localhost binding. VS happily opens the dev url and tells me that the service is unavailable.
How can I instruct VS2015 to use the existing site and binding when debugging with IIS Express?
I used the instructions as defined here with a slight modification:
Wildcard hostname in IIS Express + VS 2015
In order to make it work I left the localhost binding and added an additional binding for *. This must be done in the ~ProjectFolder~/.vs/config/applicationhost.config and not in the old location of Documents/IISExpress.....
The corrected binding looks like this in my case:
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:4355:localhost" />
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:4355:*" />
</bindings>
I have a Visual Studio web application project that, for certain reasons, copies files from multiple projects to a separate output directory. I want to use this output directory as the root of the associated IIS Express site. In IIS Express' applicationhost.config file, I can set the associated site's physical path to the correct directory. I'll set it like this:
<site name="MySiteName" id="42">
<application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="c:\my\desired\path" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:63470:localhost" />
</bindings>
</site>
However, when I reopen the project, Visual Studio overwrites my specified physical path, reverting it to the project's own directory. Even worse, Visual Studio gives me no indication that it has done this. Here's how the <virtualDirectory> element looks after Visual Studio messes it up:
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="c:\path\to\project" />
How can I prevent Visual Studio from overwriting this path?
Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 does not change the physical path for the option 'Override applicationpool URL':
The file %userprofile%\documents\iisexpress\config\applicationhost.config looks like the following as default:
<site name="MyWebSite" id="1477659296">
<application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\Projects\MyWebSite" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:62238:localhost" />
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:62238:*" />
</bindings>
</site>
Just copy the your default block above, paste it directly below and make some changes. Change the name, id, physicalPath and override the URL with the additional subdomain. In my case debug:
<site name="MyWebSiteOverwritten" id="99999999">
<application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\Projects\DifferentPath" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:62238:debug.localhost" />
</bindings>
</site>
Now, when I start VS and run the IIS Express, Visual studio does not change the physicalPath in the applicationhost.config of the overwritten URL. That works for me.
Hint for Visual Studio 2015: Visual Studio 2015 uses the file YourProject/.vs/config/applicationhost.config and overrides it every time you open the environment. Open your *.proj file and set the following entry:
<UseGlobalApplicationHostFile>true</UseGlobalApplicationHostFile>
With this configuration, the IIS Express uses your global application host file located at: %userprofile%\documents\iisexpress\config\applicationhost.config.
I wasn't able to prevent VS to override the physicalPath for MySiteName but as a workaround I added another application section with different path (lets say "NewPath") and didn't update VS to use this path under the csproj web properties. In this case when debugging it will automatically open the browser on the old url (http://localhost:63470/) if you navigate to the new endpoint (http://localhost:63470/NewPath) everything will work fine and VS will not revert this.
So the new configuration looks like this:
<site name="MySiteName" id="42">
<application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="c:\path\to\project" />
</application>
<application path="/NewPath" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="c:\my\desired\path" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:63470:localhost" />
</bindings>
</site>
I have IIS express loaded and running from a command line entry. I am using the default applicationhost.config file (I know it's the correct file as I have changed the 1st site's port a couple of times etc).
The strange thing is, I have two sites defined, and it appears only the first one gets loaded? I am sure IIS express can load multiple sites right? as long as different ports?
Here is the <sites> definition bit from the applicationhost.config file:
<sites>
<site name="BF Local SVN" id="1">
<application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\_CODE SOURCECONTROL\BizzfaceLocalSVN" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:6464:localhost" />
</bindings>
</site>
<site name="SquirrelITfreeformBS" id="2">
<application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\_CODE SOURCECONTROL\SquirrelITfreeformBS" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:6465:localhost" />
</bindings>
</site>
<siteDefaults>
<logFile logFormat="W3C" directory="%IIS_USER_HOME%\Logs" />
<traceFailedRequestsLogging directory="%IIS_USER_HOME%\TraceLogFiles" enabled="true" maxLogFileSizeKB="1024" />
</siteDefaults>
<applicationDefaults applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool" />
<virtualDirectoryDefaults allowSubDirConfig="true" />
</sites>
As you can see, two sites defined, different site ID's and different ports?
Any ideas?
When you run iisexpress.exe from command line (without any command line arguments), it starts the first site given in default applicationhost.config file (%userprofile%\documents\iisexpress\config\applicationhost.config).
To start multiple sites, use /apppool switch as shown below;
iisexpress.exe /apppool:Clr4IntegratedAppPool
Above command would start all the applications that are using 'Clr4IntegratedAppPool' app pool.
I'm just starting to use Visual Studio 2010 SP1 with IIS Express. When Visual Studio launches IIS Express, it specifies the name of the "site" to launch IIS Express with. The name of the site seems to be derived from the name of my web project. Is it possible to have Visual Studio launch a site with some other name? For instance, if my web project's name is "WebProject1", when Visual Studio launches IIS Express, it will use the following command:
iisexpress.exe /site:WebProject1
I would like to force it to do this instead:
iisexpress.exe /site:MyMasterSite
Any ideas out there?
You will want to change this in the applicationhost.config file. This can be found in the user/documents/iisexpress/config folder. In the config file, under the system.applicationhost node you will find a sites node that should allow you to set the name in the site name node.
<sites>
<site name="WebSite1" id="1" serverAutoStart="true">
<application path="/">
<virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="%IIS_SITES_HOME%\WebSite1" />
</application>
<bindings>
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation=":8080:localhost" />
</bindings>
</site>
<siteDefaults>
<logFile logFormat="W3C" directory="%IIS_USER_HOME%\Logs" />
<traceFailedRequestsLogging directory="%IIS_USER_HOME%\TraceLogFiles" enabled="true" maxLogFileSizeKB="1024" />
</siteDefaults>
<applicationDefaults applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool" />
<virtualDirectoryDefaults allowSubDirConfig="true" />
</sites>