I\'m trying to configure a new ASP.NET MVC3 using IIS7 express (on my local development machine) to use a custom domain name.<
Stop currently running site if it is running
Open %userprofile%\documents\iisexpress\config\applicationhost.config
for VS2015+ :$(solutionDir)\.vs\config\applicationhost.config
Locate the site you are interested in and it would have a binding like
Now add a similar entry
just below the above bindig entry.
run the site again
NOTE: You must start visual studio as administrator because non-localhost binding requires administrator privileges
Further to this, we need to do the following. These comments are in the top of my web.config (along with a few other stuff...).
1) netsh http add urlacl url=http://localhost.www.foo.com:80/ user=everyone
netsh http add urlacl url=http://localhost.foo.com:80/ user=everyone
netsh http add urlacl url=http://localhost.foobar.com.au:80/ user=everyone
netsh http add urlacl url=http://localhost.pewpew.com:80/ user=everyone
... etc ...
NOTE: to remove a urlacl: netsh http delete urlacl url= .. eg http://foo.com:80
2) ... and we need to edit the main IIS7 express config file to define the url's which will be accepted, per web -site-
File: C:\Users\\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config