Visual Studio Debug “This site can't be reached”

Question

One of my projects has stopped being able to run debug.. From one moment to another I get the response \"This site can\'t be reached\" when running the debugger in VS2017. I

Answer 1

The problem for me turned out to be that my web.config had a rule that was rewriting the URL to use https instead of http. After I removed the section from my web.config, I was able to debug the site.