IIS Express defaulting to port 44300 for https when enabling SSL

Question

Hi there,

When you initially set up IIS Express to enable SSL, it defaults the port to 44300. Unfortunately, when I try to access my site in on https://localhost/ it doesn't not working unless I use the port number 44300 - https://localhost:44300/.

The links are generated using the following:

<%= Html.ActionLink("Index", "Index", "Home", new { @action = "https://" + Request.Hostname + Url.Action("Index", "Home") }) %>

Although an ugly solution, the @action keyword can override the generated route, but it means that the application would seemingly need to be aware of any non-standard ports (eg 44300).

The problem with that is that I'd be writing something to solve a problem that would only occur in a development environment.

So my question is... How do I change the port to 443 and have IIS Express like it?

Config for my site is below:

<site name="MySite" id="2" serverAutoStart="true">
  <application path="/">
    <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\Inetpub\MySite" />
  </application>
  <bindings>
    <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation=":80:" />
    <binding protocol="https" bindingInformation=":44300:" />
  </bindings>
</site>

Many thanks in advance.

Update:

This question has been answered by Divya over on the IIS forums.

Answer 1

This question has been answered by Divya over on the IIS forums.