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IIS Express is a version of IIS optimized to ease website development. Among other features, it is self-contained, and lighter weight than the full version of IIS, and does not need to be run as a service, or require administrative rights for most of its functions.

IIS Express is a version of IIS optimized to ease website development. Among other features, it is self-contained, and lighterweight than the full version of IIS, and does not need to be run as a service, or require administrative rights for most of its functions.

More information can be found here, the official Introduction to IIS Express page.

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Where's the management interface for IISExpress?

Is there an interface separate from the regular IIS manager? When I search on IISExpress I find only a link to a folder full of logs related to IISExpress sites that had been spawned by Visual Studio.
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Can we use wildcards with NETSH HTTP ADD URLACL in Windows 7 / 2008r2?

i'm using IIS7 express and therefore need to unblock port 80 if I wish to hit the website locally and on the default http port. To do this, i use .. netsh http add urlacl url=http://my.custom.locahost.domain.com:80/ user=mydomain\myusername is it…
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How to configure IIS Express to ask for client certificate

Does anybody know how to configure IIS Express to require client certificate for access? I'm trying to debug a problematic ASP.NET application which uses client certificates for authentication.
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First Request to IIS Express Fails with 503 Service Unavailable, Second Succeeds

Each time I start my ASP.Net MVC 3 app from Visual Studio 2010, IIS Express launches and IE spins waiting. The request fails with HTTP 503 Service Unavailable. I hit Refresh in IE, and the request succeeds. All subsequent requests succeed until I…
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Connection Reset error trying to set up HTTPS locally using VS and IIS Express

I'm trying to set up Facebook authentication on my application, so I tried following the steps at this page: http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-5/create-an-aspnet-mvc-5-app-with-facebook-and-google-oauth2-and-openid-sign-on I'm specifically under…
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With WebMatrix, How do I Connect to a MySQL Database on a Colleague's Machine?

I have scoured Google trying to discover how to do this, but essentially I want to connect to a colleague's MySQL database for working together on a Wordpress installation. I am having no luck and keep getting an error about the connection not being…
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Powershell, IIS Express, Server 2012, Microsoft.Web.Administration requires run as admin

I'm having a strange issue with Microsoft.Web.Adminstration 7.9.0.0 for IISExpress requiring run as administrator on Server 2012. What I'm trying to do is add a Website to a custom ApplicationHost.config file using powershell. I've tested my…
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How to change IIS Express Virtual Directory password encryption provider?

In Visual Studio 2012 I'm working on an ASP.NET MVC application which requires a Virtual Directory under the main application directory called "Shared". This happens to point to a UNC path, so I need to also specify the username & password to access…
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How can I hit my iis express site from my android devices?

I have a site running under IIS Express, I added the following to my applicationHost.config So now, from…
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For iis-express on terminal services, can I limit connections to just the current user/session

I'd like to run iis-express within a user session on a windows terminal services server. However, I'd like only my current user to have access to the iis-express hosted site. Is there a way of achieving this, or does localhost have to be available…
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IIS does not load site bindings for HTTP protocol

I have an applicationhost.config file which is configured for both http and https protocols.
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Running Moodle on Windows 2008 Server other than Webmatrix

I am an educator and not a tech savvy but managed to install a Moodle installation in Windows 2008 server for the local network via the following environment: WebMatrix Version 3.0: 7.1.1934.0 IIS Express: 8.0.8418.0 .NET Framework:…
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Configure virtual directory with forward slash with IIS Express

I have configured IIS Express to have multiple virtual directories with a forward slash in the path by editing applicationhost.config. Is this the only way to have a path with a forward slash - hand edit the config file?
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How can I use Powershell to add a site to my IIS or IISExpress server

Is it possible to add a site (and bindings) to my applicationHost.config file for IIS Express or IIS ? here's one I had to manually add (which works perfectly) ...
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Change an IISExpress site's physicalPath on the command line

What's the easiest way to accomplish this? I see there's lots of examples for appcmd relating to IIS proper, and using powershell for same, but I can't see an API of sorts for reconfiguring the physicalPath of a node for a given…
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