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How do I start IIS Express?

Asked 2011-07-09T15:49:08.117
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I've used the Web PI to install IIS Express. In the tray, there is not the IIS Express icon. How do I start IIS Express without using the command line? I want that IIS runs permanently, so without command line.

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You could use srvany to run IISExpress as a service.

Here is a blog post about this (though I haven't tested it yet, it looks promissing).

http://arvinboggs.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/installing-iisexpress-as-a-service-on-windows-2003/

The interesting part is where you pass a /config ... parameter to iisexpress, otherwise IIS Express loads the config from the users documents folder.

If you want your IISExpress to be able to be reachable from remote machines you can either

  1. Start is with admin privileges and edit your applicationhost.config file: http://blogs.iis.net/vaidyg/archive/2010/07/29/serving-external-traffic-with-webmatrix-beta.aspx
  2. Start is a a user and set up an ACL: http://blogs.iis.net/vaidyg/archive/2010/07/29/serving-external-traffic-with-webmatrix-beta.aspx
answered 2012-01-25T08:40:22.453

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