I want to use iis 7 instead of iis express in visual web developer 2010

Question

I am having some trouble setting up my vwd 2010 environment to run under my local iis 7.5 instead of iis express.

Whenever I go to the project properties and select

Answer 1

This issue can happen because there is a site setup in IISExpress bound to port 80, which is also used by regular IIS.

Open up the applicationhost.config as it mentions and look for something like:

Note the part that says :80 change this to some other port so it's not shared with 80, and not in use by another application in IISExpress. You can look over the other site nodes in applicationhost.config to find one not used, or try 8081 for starters.