Basic Authentication on IIS Express

Question

I\'ve searched for a while now but I can\'t seem to find the answer. There are ways of disabling/enabling anonymous and windows authentication. Does anyone know how to enable ba

Answer 1

Update ApplicationHost.config

In the the ApplicationHost.config file, find the following nodes and update the values:

basicAuthentication enabled="false" /> 


name="basicAuthentication" overrideModeDefault="Allow" /> 

Locate ApplicationHost.config

• VS 2015 and above (per Joost's answer):

  sln_folder/.vs/applicationhost.config
  

• VS 2013 and below:

  %UserProfile%\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config
  

  As far as I know, there is no way to enable it for only one project.