Access site from public ip - asp.net-mvc

When I debug my asp.net mvc3 web application on http://localhost:11118/ using microsoft visual studio and it works perfectly.
But when I try to view it on http://MYPUBLICIPADRESS:11118/ I get a HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found. message. I portforwarded port 1118 correctly. I have no problems doing the same using apache.
How can I get this to work?

The Visual Studio internal server only accepts connection coming from localhost. You should use IIS Express (and manually change the config file) to let it accept connection using other hostnames, including the computer name.
You can read more about setting the server of your preferences on MSDN

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asp.net core RC2 iis hosting

I have hosted asp.net core app in IIS on window server 2012 R2 Standard. My site works fine when I use localhost based URL on the machine but when I try to access the URL using host name/machine name from network computer it does not work. What do I need to do to make it accessible from other computers?
There can be different reason for this:
Check your firewall to make sure your port 80 is open.
Check that the hostname point to the IP URL of your server.
What is the http code returned by the it does not work?
Tool:
Enter the Domain and IP, make sure they point to the same place.
http://www.hcidata.info/host2ip.htm
If firewall isn't the problem, and the site works via localhost on the server, make sure your IIS bindings are correct. Right click site, edit bindings, verify the domain / ip / etc match how you're trying to access it.

While Debugging in VS, can I change the HTTP Header server tag?

I have an MVC project that I've written and tested in VS 2013. When I test and debug the application from Visual Studio, my application has rendered correctly. However, when I published my application to it's hosting server, the page isn't rendering and styling correctly from the server.
Upon inspecting the page source and headers, the only difference that I found is that in Visual Studio, IIS Express is passing the HTTP header property:
Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
However, on the server that I published to, the server outputs:
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5
I am not sure if this is the cause of my root problem but I need to be able to locally duplicate this scenario so that I can take the results to my sysadmin who manages the server.
Is there a way that I can fudge this HTTP header property?
For clarification, this is an MVC5 application, targeting .Net 4.5.2 and the server that I am publishing to is running Windows Server 2012.

400 bad request when access ASP.net web api via computer name on IISExpress

I'm getting a 400 bad request error message when accessing an ASP.net web api via a url that uses the computer name. When I use localhost it works fine.
I'm using the iisExpress for visual studio 2012.
Any help is appreciated! Thanks in advance!
I found the answer to this from another post on here. I had to update my IISExpress' applicationhost.config file and add a binding with my computer name on it.
The link to the other post is here: Configure IIS Express for external access to VS2010 project
If you prefer not to change configurations, you can use our free VS extension called Conveyor
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-1448185.ConveyorbyKeyoti

Unable to start debugging on the web server. The web server could not find the requested resource

I'm having this error trying to debug my ASP.NET MVC app. I've set the app to "Use Local IIS Web server", and selected ASP.NET as the debugger. Running the site without debugging works just fine, but when I try to debug, I got this error:
Unable to start debugging on the web server. The web server could not find the requested source.
I'm using Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition.
Does anyone know how to fix this error? Thank you.
For those encountering this with Visual-Studio 2012 and/or Windows 8 do the following.
You have to add .Net 3.5 (or 4.5) to your Turn Windows Features on or off window. You get to it via :
Control Panel -> Programs -> Turn Windows Features on or off
Click the Asp.Net 3.5 and the Asp.Net 4.5 check box in the IIS > WWW Service > Application Development Features folder.
Go to your web project's properties, then the "web" tab, then make sure that you're using the Visual Studio Development Server and not Local IIS or the custom webserver. I'm on VS2010 with Win7 and another developer was developing using a custom webserver URL and not the VS Dev Server
Sounds like you are trying to develop on IIS and not iis express or development server. If you are using asp.net mvc 4, make sure that the Application Pool is framework 4. If not just make sure that your app pool it matches your asp.net mvc version.
I had the same problem, and i fixed this way:
Go to IIS Manager -> Go to the site -> Error Pages -> Actions: edit feature settings.. -> Make sure you checked "detailed errors for local requests and custom error pages for remote requests".
IF you are using IIS6 and did the add mapping for .* in IIS trick to get MVC working, when you added the .* handler to iisapi.dll you forgot to uncheck the "check the file exists" check box.
Also, be sure that the URL you're configuring in Visual Studio matches your Host Headers (Edit Bindings) in IIS. This tripped me up for about an hour this morning before I realized my very stupid error.
Having maxRequestLength or maxAllowedContentLength set to a ridiculously large or small value will also trigger this error.
What i did, was just type the IP address in the web tab instead of "localhost"
This happened to me today. Turned out to be that the default website was stopped in iis. I had been working on a second website that didn't use it for a long time. Simple fix but took me a while to see it!
The root cause for this error can often be that the Windows Service W3SVC is not started. Check that this service in Windows Services console (services.msc) is started. In IIS you will now see the the Start icon is greyed out. This means that the W3SVC service is running.

ASP MVC Preview 5 and IIS 6 Windows Authentication

I've just built a basic ASP MVC web site for deployment on our intranet. It expects users to be on the same domain as the IIS box and if you're not an authenticated Windows User, you should not get access.
I've just deployed this to IIS6 running on Server 2003 R2 SP2. The web app is configured with it's own pool with it's own pool user account. The IIS Directory Security options for the web app are set to "Windows Integrated Security" only and the web.config file has:
<authentication mode="Windows" />
From a Remote Desktop session on the IIS6 server itself, an IE7 browser window can successfully authenticate and navigate the web app if accessed via http://localhost/myapp.
However, also from the server, if accessed via the server's name (ie http://myserver/myapp) then IE7 presents a credentials dialog which after three attempts entering the correct credentials eventually returns "HTTP Error 401.1 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials".
The same problem occurs when a workstation browses to the web app url (naturally using the server's name and not "localhost").
The IIS6 server is a member of the only domain we have and has no firewall enabled.
Is there something I have failed to configure correctly for this to work?
Thanks,
I have tried the suggestions from Matt Ryan, Graphain, and Mike Dimmick to date without success. I have just built a virtual machine test lab with a Server 2003 DC and a separate server 2003 IIS6 server and I am able to replicate the problem.
I am seeing an entry in the IIS6 server's System Event Log the first time I try to access the site via the non-localhost url (ie http://iis/myapp). FQDN urls fail too.
Source: Kerberos, Event ID: 4
The kerberos client received a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error from the server host/iis.test.local. The target name used was HTTP/iis.test.local. This indicates that the password used to encrypt the kerberos service ticket is different than that on the target server. Commonly, this is due to identically named machine accounts in the target realm (TEST.LOCAL), and the client realm.
After extensive Googling I managed to find a solution on the following MSDN article:
How To: Create a Service Account for an ASP.NET 2.0 Application
Specifically the Additional Considerations section which describes "Creating Service Principal Names (SPNs) for Domain Accounts" using the setspn tool from the Windows Support Tools:
setspn -A HTTP/myserver MYDOMAIN\MyPoolUser
setspn -A HTTP/myserver.fqdn.com MYDOMAIN\MyPoolUser
This solved my problem on both my virtual test lab and my original problem server.
There is also an important note in the article that using Windows Authentication with custom pool users constrains the associated DNS name to be used by that pool only. That is, another pool with another identity would need to be associated with a different DNS name.
Sounds like the new Loopback check security feature of Windows Server 2003 SP1. As I understand it, is designed to prevent a particular type of interception attack.
From http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861
SYMPTOMS
When you use the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) or a custom host header to browse a local Web site that is hosted on a computer that is running Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 or IIS 6, you may receive an error message that resembles the following:
HTTP 401.1 - Unauthorized: Logon Failed
This issue occurs when the Web site uses Integrated Authentication and has a name that is mapped to the local loopback address.
Note You only receive this error message if you try to browse the Web site directly on the server. If you browse the Web site from a client computer, the Web site works as expected.
CAUSE
This issue occurs if you install Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 include a loopback check security feature that is designed to help prevent reflection attacks on your computer. Therefore, authentication fails if the FQDN or the custom host header that you use does not match the local computer name.
Workaround
Method 1: Disable the loopback check
Method 2: Specify host names
See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861 for details.
Edit - just noticed that you said you were seeing this from Client PCs as well... that's more unusual. But I'd still look to test one of these workarounds, to see if it corrected the problem (and if so, might indicate a problem with your DNS config).
It sounds to me as though you've done everything right.
I'm sure you are but have you made sure you are using 'DOMAIN\user' as the user account and not just 'user'?
IE7 only sends Windows credentials (NTLM, Kerberos) if it identifies the server as being on the Intranet. IE7 also added an Intranet zone lockdown feature - if you're not on a domain, by default no servers are in the Intranet zone. This was done to prevent zone-migration attacks.
To change this, go to Tools/Internet Options, Security tab, then click Local Intranet. You can then manually add servers that should be treated as Intranet, by clicking the Sites button, then Advanced, or tell IE not to automatically detect your Intranet and selecting the other checkboxes as appropriate.
I just encountered the opposite problem - my site authenticates externally but not locally.
I compared it to the sites we have working and the difference was that the site that failed to authenticate was using Windows Authentication.
However, other sites I work with (this is a dev server) tend to have Basic Authentication.
Not sure why exactly but this fixed it.
However, at the same time I noticed "Default Domain" and "Realm" settings.
I know it's very unlikely but could these perhaps help at all?

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