Im testing an ASP.NEt site. When I execute it, it starts the ASP.NET Development Server and opens up a page.
Now I want to test it in the intranet I have.
Can I use this server or I need to configure IIS in this machine?
Do I need to configure something for it to work?
I've changed the localhost to the correct IP and I opened up the firewall.
Thanks
Yes you can! And you don't need IIS
Just use a simple Java TCP tunnel. Download this Java app & just tunnel the traffic back.
http://jcbserver.uwaterloo.ca/cs436/software/tgui/tcpTunnelGUI.shtml
In command prompt, you'd then run the java app like this... Let's assume you want external access on port 80 and your standard debug environment runs on port 1088...
java -jar tunnel.jar 80 localhost 1088
(Also answered here: Accessing asp. net development server external to VM)
No, you can't. It's set up so it only works on localhost, and I couldn't find any workarounds to make it work.
But, here's what I've been doing - I created the website on a specific port in IIS and opened that port up so it's visible on the network. I pointed that IIS website to my website's root folder (the one with web.config in it). Then I continued to use the ASP.NET Development server on that local machine while developing - both IIS and the ASP.NET Development Server can access the files at the same time (unless you're doing something wacky).
Let me know if there's a challenge with running IIS on your machine and I'll update my answer.
I realize this isn't a direct answer to your question, but an alternative to debugging using the ASP development server is to attach to the IIS process: How do I attach the debugger to IIS instead of ASP.NET Development Server?
Nope, stupidly (IMHO) there's no way to get the default ASP.net development server to serve pages to IPs other than localhost. What I did was to use UltiDev Cassini which is very quick to set up and is basically a version of the ASP.net development server compiled by UltiDev, and it will serve pages to any IP address.
Just for those who don't want/cant set up IIS for whatever reason...
Use fiddler or similar on your host - set your browser on the client VM to use the proxy then just use localhost:dev_port as usual on the client.
All requests from the client goto the proxy on your dev machine which routes to localhost on the dev machine and the ASP.net dev server thinks the request is from your dev machine!
You can recompile Cassini to get it to work - there's a fairly easy to remove check for localhost in there. Or, I'm pretty sure Ultidev's Cassini doesn't have this restriction. Both of these are easier to setup than IIS.
But, yeah, the builtin WebDev.WebServer doesn't work....Hmm, unless you run something like AnalogX's Proxy on your dev box and point it to the WebDev port. That should work (though I haven't tried it, it should take < 2 mins to setup).
You can use Cassini to expose your web apps externally. You just need to proxy the connection. I wrote a simple program to do this that you can run in another VS instance. Just change the port to match the port Cassini is using.
https://gist.github.com/945649
You can do port redirection using SOAP Toolkit 3.0
Once installed, go to My Programs > Microsoft Soap Toolkit 3 > Trace Utility
Once Trace Utility opened, go to File > New > Formatted Trace
In the dialog insert your ASP .NET Development Server port in Forward To Destination Port field.
It's only a workaround for testing purposes
I believe the built in ASP.NET server only works on localhost. You'll have to use IIS.
Compile all you website in Debug mode, then create the website and publish it in IIS (make sure you can view it from other machine). Then attach the VS2010 Debugger to the process with the AppPool of your website (the process is called w3wp.exe when IIS>v5 and aspnet_wp.exe when IIS<5).
If you make some changes, just replace the package contents on the physical path of the website, and there you go again.
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I have been given a task where I have to write some code for an ASP.NET website that also uses a webservice.
The webservice works fine on the webserver, but when i run in debug mode in Visual Studio, I get an access not allowed when calling one of the methods (ip 127.0.0.1).
I need to run in debug mode to look at what the code does...
What to do from here ?
Do I need to do some changes in the host file.
Do I need to install IIS on my PC instead of using the VS local webserver (cassini)
Cassini web server does not allow remote connections. You could use Fiddler to forward traffic on localhost to another port on the same machine for some given requests.
By far the easiest solution is to install IIS on your local machine and run it from there.
Cassini is fine for development and getting something running up very quickl.
But never us it to test things that will go into production on a "real" IIS.
Yes, Microsoft says its completely the same, but running on your localmachine also IIS gives you exactly the same environment as you will have on any live hosting environment.
Sure, its a little bit more work, but developing this way reduces errors and artefacts which may steal you some time.
I have a .NET 1.1 solution where all projects have been upgraded to .NET 4.0 (VS2010, Windows 7). To get past my "Unable to start debugging on the web server" problem, I switched my web application property to use VS Development Server instead of IIS.
When debugging the web application, it launches OK. But I get the above error when I hit a line where I call a web service that's local on my machine. I've seen stuff about adding useUnsafeHeaderParsing=false, but my web.config doesn't have a sytem.net section.
Is it not able to server the web service as well as the web application simultaneously on the application development server? Do I need to get it configured correctly to use IIS7? As a longtime IIS6 user, just looking at it makes my head spin... although, I do have the site and webservices set up within it, and I am fairly certain it worked at one time. Gotta love that.
This worked for me: Text below is comming from This CodePlex Post
This error usually occurs when you have set up Visual Studio to debug
an existing web application running in IIS rather than the built in
ASP.NET debug web server. IIS by default listens for web requests on
port 80. In this case, another application is already listening for
requests on port 80. Typically, the offending application is Skype,
which by default takes over listening on ports 80 and 443 when
installed. Skype is already occupy the port 80. So IIS is unable to
start.
To resolve the issue follow the steps:
- Skype -> Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Connection:
- Uncheck "Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections".
Its due to Skype has taken default Port 80 or 443 and Default website is stopped.
to solve this issue, close Skype, [Start] Default Website from IIS, (and start skype again if you want.)
you might also try doing an IIS reset
I thought I would just replace the localhost with my computer and it will work but it does not:
http://10.90.108.66/MyWebApplication/Default.aspx
How can I make it work so I can share the url?
Are you using cassini/the visual studio web development server?
if so, this doesn't accept remote connections, you'll have to host it in an instance of IIS
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.
I know that generally speaking, this cant be done, that is get another PC to call a site hosted under the ASP.NET DEvelopment Web Server remotely (generally you can only use localhost:port to get to it).
But I was wondering if anyone has seen, or knows of a way to get around it? I am a RESTful API developer in my office, and I would like the PHP guys to test the APIs on my machine so that I can have the Visual Studio 2005 debugger attached, and I can more easily find problems.
THe main issue is, that my machine is a Vista machine, and unfortunately, the APIs I have developed do not work under IIS7, even Classic Application Pool mode (which eliminates hosting them on a local IIS impossible).
Alternatively, is there a way to use IIS6 on another machine to suite my needs?
Update
Based on the advise that I have gotten and after much trial and error with the suggestions made, I was able to get Squid to act as a reverse-proxy and do exactly what I wanted to do. I have blogged about it http://www.ashleyangell.com/index.php/2009/03/configuring-a-basic-reverse-proxy-in-squid-on-windows-website-accelerator/ in case anyone else wants to do the same thing.
This is substantially easier than the Squid option:
"Accessing the Visual Studio ASP.NET Development Server from iPhone"
Also there is an update that works well under Windows 7, too:
"iPhone Accessing the Visual Studio ASP.NET Development Server - Windows 7 Update"
I have just tried http://code.activestate.com/recipes/483732-asynchronous-port-forwarding/ successfully. It's a Python script that just forwards the traffic.
Assuming the machine your dev server runs on is 192.168.42.42 and the dev server is on port 12345, run the script (on the same machine) with the command line arguments
-l 192.168.42.42 -p 8000 -r 127.0.0.1 -P 12345
From a different machine, you can then access the server via http://192.168.42.42:8000.
Be sure to change sender.handle_close as noted by Dwight Walker in the comments:
def handle_close(self):
self.close()
if len(self.receiver.to_remote_buffer) == 0:
self.receiver.close()
Can't you just run IIS7 in Classic Application Pool mode?
The Development Web Server is strictly limited to Localhost, you would either need to decompile and recompile it, or set up some kind of Proxy on your machine.
And on an unrelated Topic: Even though Win2003 Server SP2 R2 should be supported up to March 2012, maybe IIS7 Support should be added to your application to make sure you can run on 2008 Server as well.
Basically i spent 5 hours making this work, and ultimately if you want a 5 min fix here goes:
1. Port forward incoming traffic to your local ip on your network
TCP Any -> 3127-3128
TCP Any -> 80-81
TCP Any -> 8080
TCP Any -> 8000
TCP Any -> 8888
to
192.1681.1.3 (the local ip of the machine running .NET Dev server.)
2. Download SPI Port Forward
3. Heres the tricky part - Setup 2 forwarding rules as follows:
Local port: 8080 Remote: localhost Remote port 8080
Local port: 8080 Remote: localhost Remote port: .NET Dev server port
Without that second rule the .NET dev server wont serve the page
4. now visit your public IP address at port 8080 -- and you got it
Z
You might want to take a look at UltiDev's version of the Cassini web server. They took the Microsoft Open Source Cassini web server and enhanced it to allow among other things, remote connections.
You can attach VS to the process, and watch your RESTful APIs being called from the PHP application, exactly as you describe above.
Just use a simple Java TCP tunnel. Download this Java app & just tunnel the traffic back. No messing with IIS necessary!
http://jcbserver.uwaterloo.ca/cs436/software/tgui/tcpTunnelGUI.shtml
In command prompt, you'd then run the java app like this... Let's assume you want external access on port 80 and your standard debug environment runs on port 1088...
java -jar tunnel.jar 80 localhost 1088
(Also answered here: Accessing asp. net development server external to VM)
Switching IIS 7 to Classic pipeline does not resolve your compatibility issues?
VS 2005 has a remote debugger, as did many versions before that.
YES THERE IS! :D
I was also looking around to overcome this limitation for some time and accidentally I stumbled upon following article:
http://eeichinger.blogspot.com/2009/12/sniff-http-traffic-with-aspnet.html
I haven't tried it myself yet, but looks quick & simple (although some may say this is hardcore).
BTW. I recommend you look at some other posts at Erich Eichinger's blog, since there's more really valuable stuff.
This post helped me:
http://staticvoidmain.cognitioab.se/index.php/2013/01/remote-debugging-asp-net-development-server-with-spi-port-forward/
It suggests using a third-party application on your developer machine to act as a proxy (sort of). So you connect to this app, and it forwards all your requests to the development server. Works like magic :)