Basic Authentication on IIS Express

Question

I've searched for a while now but I can't seem to find the answer. There are ways of disabling/enabling anonymous and windows authentication. Does anyone know how to enable basic authentication on IIS Express (8.0) in Visual Studio 2013?

Answer 1

Update ApplicationHost.config

In the the ApplicationHost.config file, find the following nodes and update the values:

<sectionGroup name="authentication"&gt
   <basicAuthentication enabled="false" /> <!-- set to false -->
</sectionGroup&gt

<!-- ... -->

<authentication&gt
   <section name="basicAuthentication" overrideModeDefault="Allow" /> <!-- set to allow -->
</authentication&gt

Locate ApplicationHost.config

• VS 2015 and above (per Joost's answer):

  sln_folder/.vs/applicationhost.config
  

• VS 2013 and below:

  %UserProfile%\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config
  

  As far as I know, there is no way to enable it for only one project.