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Prasanth
Prasanth

Reputation: 11

Unable to create a Virtual Directory from VS2010 with a name other than localhost

I am getting Exception

"Unable to create virtual directory.Could not find the server 'https:devlocal.com/test' on local machine. Make sure the local IIS server has been configured to support secure communication."

1.I had added a host entry for 127.0.0.1 devlocal.com

now when i am trying to create virtual directory from VS2010 it is displaying above mentioned exception.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 10819

Answers (4)

rism
rism

Reputation: 12132

You'll often get this if you either change the default port binding as per another answer or if you're using host header files and you alter the IP address to something specific like 192.168.1.1 instead of using All Unassigned.

I believe Visual Studio uses 127.0.0.1:80 to talk to IIS for this properties dialog. So if your site in IIS uses bindings other than that such as 

127.0.0.1:67

or

192.168.1.1:80

it will fail.

Upvotes: 0

ShuggyCoUk
ShuggyCoUk

Reputation: 36438

I had removed the default binding to port 80 (which I assume Visual Studio uses to request IIS creates a virtual directory).

Adding this back in solved the problem.

Upvotes: 1

Kris
Kris

Reputation: 565

Adding Host Header resolved the issue for my case. Hope you got some resolution - if so, please update us as well.

Host Header value in IIS

As depicted above, specifying the Host Header Value as well as adding Network Service with Full access rights for the actual physical folder of the site has resolved the issue.

Hope this helps someone, as I didn't got any clear details from any source. Please note that I'm using Windows 2K3.

Upvotes: 0

ChrisBD
ChrisBD

Reputation: 9209

Try the following:

In command window navigate to "c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727" 

                            - then run "ASPNET_REGIIS -i"

                            - then run "ASPNET_REGIIS -ga ASPNET"
  • Within IIS Manager add "Integrated Windows authentication" to Authentication methods for "Default Web Site"

Note: Assumption that your boot drive is C

Upvotes: 0

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