I am currently trying to run my visual studio web project on a blackberry sim.
I can access my machine's IIS page from the IP address, (so when I type in 10.x.x.x, it takes me to a page for IIS).
My question is how do I access the localhost page that visual studio is running, so the page that would normally have the home Ip address in browser.
I am guessing is is (machine IP)/(something), but I dont know what the something is.
Thanks
Visual Studio often times runs testing server when you test your code from inside VS. When VS opens a new browser window and shows you the running application you should see something like:
localhost:####/WebProject
That is the location of your files on separate port (whatever is in the place of ####). However, most likely this testing server will be set to not allow remote access. What I would suggest is creating a virtual directory in iis so that you can go to 10.x.x.x/WebProject and have that point to the directory that your VS project is in.
Instructions on creating a virtual directory: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/5adfcce1-030d-45b8-997c-bdbfa08ea459.mspx?mfr=true
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I have an ASP.NET project which developed in visual studio 2010 on my computer.
I can open its pages using address like : localhost:52413/Default.aspx .
I want to reach that page from my smartphone which is connected in same wireless network. How can i do that. First of all i tried 192.168.2.2:52413/default.aspx
What should i do?
If you are using the Visual Studio built-in development server, then you are not going to be able to open the website on another computer (or smartphone). This web server is bound to localhost. But you have three options to test your website on your smartphone:
Use IIS Express
Install IIS Express
Change project settings to use IIS Express instead of the built-in web server
Configure IIS Express to listen to remote requests.
Use IIS
Install IIS
Change project settings to use IIS (instructions for Visual Studio 2008, mostly the same in Visual Studio 2010)
Transfer your files to a web host where you have a domain name and hosting contract
For 1. and 2. you probably also need to configure your local machine's firewall to allow incoming traffic.
This can be done quite easily using Fiddler.
www.fiddler2.com
First download and install Fiddler.
Start the program and select "Tools" -> "Fiddler Options" from the menu.
In the options dialog select the "Connections" tab and check "Allow remote computers to connect".
A 'restart required' dialog may appear.
Now select "Rules" -> "Customize Rules" from the menu.
This opens a text file called "CustomRules". At the end of the "OnBeforeRequest" method (around line 188 or so) add the following:
if (oSession.host.toLowerCase() == "192.168.2.2:8888")
oSession.host = "localhost:2000";
Save the file. Close it. Restart Fiddler.
Start your web application (I usually configure the web site with a static port) like normal and verify that it's viewable on the computer through localhost:2000 (or whatever port number you have decided to use. It must match what you entered in "CustomRules", though).
Now you should be able to browse the web application from any device on your lan provided firewall and such let you by pointing a browser to http://192.168.2.2:8888
Maybe the firewall on your computer is blocking connections to port 52413. Try turning off the Windows Firewall to see if that helps.
local development server can be use only from local machine, publish to your app to or you can install UtilDev Web server (former Cassini)
while running asp.net application locally, the domain name shows 'http://localhost:50984/application1/'
Can I change 'localhost' to 'abcd'? if yes how?
how can this application be made available through network to other computers?
(I am using Visual Web Developer 2010 Express, windows 7) (I found some similar kind of questions like change localhost domain when running locally but didn't find any way to implement)
Open up your hosts file and modify 'localhost' to 'abcd', which is located at C:\Windows\System 32\drivers\etc\hosts (you'll have to open with notepad).
In order allow your application to be accessed on other computers you'll have to host it somewhere. This usually means within IIS because as far as I know this isn't currently possible with the local server provided with Web Developer 2010 Express.
How do I setup the project on the network instead of localhost? I want to setup a Remote Site, I think is the lingo
Go into visual studio
File, open website and put the website name in the box and a password to open the source.
Create a unique url name like myWebApp.mycompany.com
When I create a new website application in visual studio. When I am ready to debug Visual Studio sets all this up for me and it runs on local host automatically.
I guess in my scenario I gotta set it up manually. How do I accomplish this?
I created a new virtual directory, went through the permissions wizard and keep getting this error:
Failed to access IIS metabase.
If you are trying to deploy somewhere you can access via a windows share, it is often easier to just deploy to disk by publishing to the file system and setup the IIS bits manually. In that case, you'll need the name of the server and a share to push to.
Setting the url will be configured in IIS where you host the web app. When you are debugging in visual studio it is running a copy of the web app locally so you can test it. You shouldn't be trying to host the web app within the visual studio debugger.
To configure this you will need to set the host header for the website to myWebApp.mycompany.com. This will tell IIS that incoming requests with this domain map to this website.
Microsoft recommends testing older versions of IE with the following virtual machines
This is all fine and good, except that the virtual machines can't see the Dev Server from Visual Studio. This makes it very difficult to develop or debug since I have to copy or deploy to IIS for every little change I make. I've tried using ARR, but it seems it can only forward to one specific port at a time, whereas i need to have the port typed in the address bar of the virtual machine to match the port that it is connecting to on the host machine. Is this possible?
You shouldn't need to deploy to IIS to test changes.
We set our IIS up on development machines to point to the web project folder.
Once IIS is setup, you can add an existing website to your solution, select Local IIS and select the Site from the list of sites (rather than browsing the file system and selecting a .csproj file). You'll now have your site in VS that is hosted by IIS, ready to change and debug, and accessible from remote machines.
Generally speaking you cannot access the ASP.NET Development Server on one machine from another.
Here's some additonal notes on what you cannot do with ASP.NET Development Server from MSDN
ASP.NET Development Server is specifically built to serve, or run, ASP.NET Web pages under the local host scenario (browsing from the same computer as the Web server). In other words, the ASP.NET Development Server will serve pages to browser requests on the local computer. It will not serve pages to another computer. Additionally, it will not serve files that are outside of the application scope. The ASP.NET Development Server provides an efficient way to test pages locally before you publish the pages to a production server running IIS.
The ASP.NET Development Server works only with individual pages and does not include the extra facilities of IIS. For example, the ASP.NET Development Server does not support an SMTP mail server. If your Web application involves sending e-mail messages, you must have access to the IIS SMPT virtual server to test e-mail because the ASP.NET Development Server cannot forward e-mail messages or invoke a server that does.
Anyway.....
Googling around I have found an article where somebody had success on accessing a Development Server remotely using a reverse proxy. I have not tried but here's the link
Configuring a Basic Reverse Proxy in Squid on Windows (Website Accelerator)
Also have a look at this StackOverflow question that has answers describing varous methods to achieve your results
Is There a Way to Make Remote Calls to ASP.NET Development Web Server?
You need to type the development server port into the address bar of the client browser, otherwise host the application in IIS and use the default port.
It is overkill to test with this number of configurations in the development environment. It is generally sufficient to test with 2 or 3 configurations while you are writing code (say IE8, FireFox) - just run these from the local machine (no need for a virtual machine). Once you've finished the UI, deploy your application to a test environment running IIS and test it against the larger range of configurations.
If you test each small change against all of these configurations as the change is made, you'll find yourself overwhelmed with testing. Don't forget that as well as the MS recommended test environments, various configurations of other browsers and operating systems (such as FireFox and Opera, Mac OS) are equally important - you may choose to only test a subset of these configurations depending on your resources.
I too found the link Lorenzo mentions in his comment, but had no luck with Squid configuration.
Happily there's a much easier method, as noted here.
Go to CNET and download SPI Port Forwarder
(Note: Click the "Direct Download Link" below the big green "Download Now" button. If you use the Download Now button CNET tries to install adware on your machine before giving you the file. It's very odd.)
In the first column, "Local Port" put the port you want people to connect to your machine on. I wanted people to come in on 80.
Second column, "Remote host", put "localhost" (it'll apparently port-forward to other machines).
Third column, "Remote port", put the port of the local webserver (in my case the ASP.NET Development Server on port 2485).
Click "Activate"
Hope this helps.
I am answering this old question to help peoples who wants to make it work without IIS. Thank you Fiddler !
1. First Step
You have to download Fiddler.
Once Fiddler is downloaded and installed, open it.
Go in Tools-> Fiddler Option-> Connection tab-> And check "Allow remote computers to connect" :
Restart Fiddler.
2. Second Step
After this, in the VM, open internet explorer-> Internet Options-> Connection Tab-> Lan Settings-> Check "Use a proxy server for your LAN" :
The adress is the IP adress of your DEV machine.
And put the port 8888
Now, you can access the ASP.NET Web Server from your VM !
To access it -> http://localhost.:54814
Don't forget the additional point after "localhost" !
The port, "54814" in my case, is the ASP.NET Web Server port.
Recently I installed Oracle and the required Microsoft Loopback Adaptor, which worked fine. However, this seems to have screwed up IIS (or at least its interaction with Visual Studio) somehow. I can't connect to localhost or 127.0.0.1 anymore, and I can't even open a web project in Visual Studio 2008 (which used to work fine), getting the error "The local IIS URL http://localhost/MyProject specified for the Web project MyProject has not been configured. In order to open this project the virtual directory needs to be configured. Would you like to create this directory now?" I click yes, then it gives an error that it "could not find the server http://localhost on the current machine".
IIS is running and I can connect to the default IIS website and other contents of inetput/wwwroot on localhost:1122.
I tried to disable the loopback adaptor and comment out the line I needed to add to hosts to get Oracle working, and while this has stopped Oracle from working, it hasn't helped with IIS/localhost.
edit: this turned out to be fixed by restoring the project from a backup, so it must have been an issue with the project itself of some sort.
I am guessing it's a problem with the loopback adaptor. You might have to restore your Connection settings properly. Check whether the loopback adaptor is properly disabled and whether Connection settings are correct from Control Panel->Network Connections.
Edit:
Also it would be better to restart the system after you have made all the necessary changes in the settings.
You could configure your local IIS to listen on a different port. Right click Default website, tab Web site, then Advanced. Add for example 1234 as a TCP port.
Then you can connect like http://localhost:1234/YourProject
You can open the website in Visual Studio from the file system, and specify the new URL in Project -> Property Pages -> Start Options -> Use custom server.
Ok, I finally managed to get this working by deleting the project and restoring from a backup. I guess the project configuration had somehow become screwed up in such a way as to cause the error I got, rather than there being a problem with IIS itself. Sorry for the false alarm.
Something similar happened to me today on Windows XP and IIS 5.whatever-it-is. The problem is that a tool I installed had created some Virtual Directories without an Application Name under the Default Web Site.
The solution was to open up the IIS snap-in, right-click and choose Properties for the offending virtual directories, and make up an "Application name" under the "Virtual Directory" tab of the Properties dialog that pops up. It didn't matter what I named it, as long as there was no virtual directory under the Default Web Site with a blank application name.