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How can I enable remote requests in IIS Express? Scott Guthrie wrote that is possible but he didn't say how.
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Normally when you run an application in IIS Express, it's only accessible on http://localhost:[someport]. In order to access it from another machine, it needs to be bound to your public IP address as well.
There's a blog post up on the IIS team site now explaining how to enable remote connections on IIS Express. Here is the pertinent part of that post summarized:
On Vista and Win7, run the following command from an administrative prompt:
netsh http add urlacl url=http://vaidesg:8080/ user=everyoneFor XP, first install Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools. Then run the following command from an administrative prompt:
httpcfg set urlacl /u http://vaidesg1:8080/ /a D:(A;;GX;;;WD)
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