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Unable to start debugging on the web server. Could not start ASP.NET debugging VS 2010, II7, Win 7 x64

Asked 2011-01-11T01:07:10.657
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I am running Visual Studio 2010 (as Admin), IIS 7 on Windows 7 x64. I am able to run the ASP.NET web site in IIS 7 without debugging just fine, but when I press F5 to debug it, I get:

Unable to start debugging on the web server. Could not start ASP.NET debugging. More information may be available by starting the project without debugging.

Unfortunately the help link is not helping me much and leads down a heck of a large tree of things.

I checked the following:

  • Security requirements — I don't recall having to do anything special before. The worker process in IIS7 is w3wp.exe. It says that if it's running as ASPNET or NETWORK SERVICE I must have Administrator privileges to debug it. How do I find out if I need to change something here?

  • Web site Property Pages > Start Options > Debuggers > ASP.NET is checked. Use custom server is set to the URL of the site (which works fine without debugging).

  • Debugging is enabled in web.config.

  • Application is using ASP.NET 3.5 (I want to move to 4.0 eventually but I have some migration to deal with).

  • Application pool: Classing .NET AppPool (also tried DefaultAppPool).

Any ideas where I can check next?

Surely it shouldn't be that hard to install IIS, VS, create a web site, and start testing it?

Thanks in advance.

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I have exactly the same problem after implementing the rewrite module.

If I remove the rewrite entries from my web.config file, debugging works perfectly.

To get around this, I just to comment out the rewrite tags while debugging, like this...

<rewrite>
    <rules>
        <rule name="LowerCaseRule_1" stopProcessing="true">
            <match url="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />
            <action type="Redirect" url="{ToLower:{URL}}" />
        </rule>
        <rule name="RedirectDefault.aspx_1" stopProcessing="true">
            <match url="(.*)default.aspx" />
            <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
        </rule>
    </rules>
</rewrite>

I then remove the comments after debugging.

Must be an bug in visual studio 2010.

answered 2011-07-16T15:29:39.383
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remove sting like this: targetFramework="4.0" in web.config or change AppPool to appropriate framework version.

answered 2012-09-25T09:16:58.833

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