After debugging my website in Visual Studio 2015, I can visit it via localhost:50544. I would like to visit my website on a different computer from which it is being served upon that is also on the same network. To do this I should be able to visit that computers address which is 192.168.1.13:50544.
However when visiting this address I get a 'Bad request, invalid host name' error. Even if I visit it on the same machine as the website is being served on.
Following the advice here I have created the following windows firewall rule and have also tried turning the firewall off entirely.
I'm using IIS express and so have added to the '~\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config' file
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation=":8080:localhost" /> //original rule
<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:50544:192.168.1.13" />
But visiting 192.168.1.13:50544 on any machine still results in the 'Bad Request' error.
The format of the bindingInformation
attribute is:
ip address:port:host header
What you need is:
bindingInformation="192.168.1.13:50544:*"
Source: https://www.iis.net/configreference/system.applicationhost/sites/site/bindings/binding?showTreeNavigation=true#006
Update:
There appear to be some folks who are under the mistaken belief that this answer is incorrect. First of all go read the documentation (see link above) and read the examples.
Secondly IIS and IIS Express are essentially the same product. IIS Express has been tweaked so that non-administrators can run IIS on developer PC's where they might not have full local admin rights. Despite this, both IIS and IIS Express use the same applicationHost.config
file formats, and this means that the bindingInformation
attribute format is exactly the same for both products.
The reason that the (incorrect) :50544:192.168.1.13
bindingInformation
string works is because (rightly or wrongly):
... then IIS will try to match to an IP address in the host header part of the binding info string.
The correct format for both IIS7+ and IIS Express is, and always has been:
ip_address:port:host_header
You have to run Visual Studio as Administrator
In Visual Studio 2015 the applicationhost.config
is located it the folder in the project itself. Esc MyProjectName\.vs\config
, note that the .vs
folder may be hidden. Change the Ip from there, not IISExpress folder.
Your <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:50544:192.168.1.13" />
is correct.
We made an extension called Conveyor that you can use to open up IIS Express to external access without any config changes.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-1448185.ConveyorbyKeyoti
I had same issue with remote access and I tried all of these tips to fix it. For me helped ticking "Allow anonymous authentication" in Web project config.