How to enable SSL for IIS Express in VS2015

Question

I feel like I must be missing something easy, but does anyone know how to enable SSL for IIS Express when using an ASPNET5 web project? The Project Properties Debug screen only shows a port, not a URL ("classic" web projects still allow you to specific https in the url)

Answer 1

Edit your applicationhost.config in [SOLUTION_DIR]\.vs\config

for exemple in the sites section :

<site name="YOUR SITE NAME" id="1">
    <application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
      <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="YOUR SITE PATH" />
    </application>
    <bindings>
      <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:80:localhost" />
      <binding protocol="https" bindingInformation="*:44300:localhost" />
    </bindings>
</site>

Answer 2

You do this in a vNEXT project almost exactly the same as prior projects. Microsoft just moved the settings to the debug tab of the project properties.

1. Open the properties of the project
2. Select the debug tab on the left
3. Tic the checkbox for Enable SSL

If yout don't have the above option

Click the project root node in the explorer window, press F4 and adjust the following:

Answer 3

This can be done simply if you click on the project in the Solution Explorer the open the Properties and set the SSL Enabled to True.