IIS Binding on localhost can't show page

Question

I'm trying to set up bindings for two services on localhost IIS but when I attempt to access the URL I get 404 (Page cannot be displayed).

Edit: This is purely for testing purposes and not for a release!

My setup:

Service 1:

• Name: ServiceAdmin.localhost
• Port: 8082
• Binding setup:Hostname: ServiceAdmin.localhost, Port: 80

Service 2:

• Name: Web.Api
• Port: 8080
• Binding setup: Hostname: jftapi.com (tried this url for TS Purposes), Port: 80

Can anyone see what I might be doing wrong?

Answer 1

I'm going to answer the question myself as I found what the problem was. Maybe a simple thing obvious to most but it might help someone:

The url's (ServiceAdmin.localhost and jftapi.com) needed to be added to the hosts file located in Windows\System32\drivers\etc as follows:

   127.0.0.1       ServiceAdmin.localhost
   127.0.0.1       www.jftapi.com

This was what I had missed!