The Web Application Project […] is configured to use IIS. The Web server […] could not be found.

Question

I have a web project in my solution file that is \"unavailable\" when I open the solution. When I right-click on the web project and reload the project, I get the following

Answer 1

This worked for me:-
Make all your IIS websites point to localhost(All Unassigned) only

Answer 2

Try opening Visual Studio with Administrator privileges. In my case, it gave access to the IIS site and made this error go away. I was then able to switch the project to use IIS Express which doesn't seem to need administrator privileges.

Answer 3

This solution worked for me: Right click the Project and select edit and find the following code as shown below in the picture.

change the <UseIIS>True</UseIIS> to <UseIIS>False</UseIIS>

OR

change the <IISUrl>http://example.com/</IISUrl> to <IISUrl>http://localhost/</IISUrl>

Answer 4

For my project, I had to delete these two lines from .csproj file

<ProjectGuid>{3AA499DF-4A65-43B7-8965-D08A4C811834}</ProjectGuid>
<ProjectTypeGuids>{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{fae04ec0-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}</ProjectTypeGuids>

I tried deleting only the first one, but it wasn't enough.

EDIT: As many users have pointed out, this can change your project type or mess with your source control program. I can't investigate these issues as it was a school project I do not have anymore. Please be careful when trying this. At least make a copy of what you delete.

Answer 5

Edit the .csproj or vbproj file. Find and replace these entries

<UseIIS>true</UseIIS> by <UseIIS>false</UseIIS>
<UseIISExpress>true</UseIISExpress> by <UseIISExpress>false</UseIISExpress>

Answer 6

You can load the project without setting the value of attribute UseIIS to true. Simply follow the below steps:

In the mywebproject.csproj file--

Delete the tag < IISUrl>http://localhost/MyWebApp/< /IISUrl> and save the file. The application will automatically assign the default port to it.