Visual Studio 2012 IIS Express 8 Fresh Install - Can't Connect

Question

On Visual Studio 2010 + IIS Express 7 I was able to use IIS Express as a server and browse sites.

I\'ve since installed Visual Studio 2012 (on Windows 7 64-bit) with

Answer 1

I know this question was answered by the original poster, but for those who get here through google, here is a possible solution to your problems: HTTPS stopped working with IIS express

Answer 2

I tracked down the problem on my machine.

When I checked my C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file, I did not have

 127.0.0.1   localhost

in the file. I remember changing it "temporarily" to troubleshoot a problem. Adding back in the missing record fixed my problem.

You can test what IP your machine thinks localhost is by simply ping localhost and making sure that 127.0.0.1 is pinged and not some other IP.

Answer 3

I had a similar issue running my asp.net MVC4 project on localhost under IIS express 8.0 so I ended up uninstalling IIS 8.0 and installing IIS express 7.5 and straight away the problem was fixed:

• Uninstall IIS express 8.0
• Delete the My Documents\IISExpress folder
• Install IIS express 7.5 (Link to IIS Express 7.5 download)

IIS Express 8.0 seems to be installed with VS 2012 so if you had a new install or possibly a service pack update this might have upgraded your previous IIS express version.

Answer 4

If anyone else has this issue - make sure any website bindings in applicationhost.config refer to valid addresses.

I had this message when applicationhost.config was binding to a specific IP address, but that IP wasn’t valid for the host at that time (I had an internal network IP assigned via a DHCP reservation, but I was on a different network).

Answer 5

I resolved my issues with IIS by installing WebMatrix (download). I ran WebMatrix, opened a site in WebMatrix and IIS fired up just fine. Closed WebMatrix and ran an ASP.NET MVC site in VS and it worked.

Answer 6

Did you check if the http bindings registration happened for your site? (running "netsh http show servicestate" command from command prompt would show all the registered bindings and check if your site binding "localhost:60046" exists or not)

if your site binding does not exists, try following to check why bindings registration is failing.

1. Open command prompt
2. Goto IIS Express installation folder (%programfiles%\iis express)
3. Start your site from command line by using following command line iisexpress.exe /site:"your-site-name" /trace:d
4. Step 3 would show error message if the bindings registration fails