How can I configure Cassini web server to accept requests to different hosts?

Question

See duplicate: Customizing the cassini webserver

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I have a web service hosted using Cassini web server. It works fine if I reference it by localhost, but when I use my machine's name (even using the browser locally), I get:

Server Error in '/' Application.
HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden.
Version Information: Cassini Web Server 1.0.40305.0 

How can I configure it to accept all requests?

Answer 1

Cassini is specifically build to reject any outside connections. You could rebuild from sourcecode if you want it to accept outside connections.

Edit:

In reply to the below comment on what to edit in the sourcecode, you'd probably want to change the following in Server.cs on line 88:

_socket = CreateSocketBindAndListen(AddressFamily.InterNetwork,
             IPAddress.Loopback, _port);

Into something like this:

_socket = CreateSocketBindAndListen(AddressFamily.InterNetwork,
             IPAddress.Any, _port);

This will bind the listening socket to all available IP addresses on the system instead of only to the localhost address (127.0.0.1).

Answer 2

To update this answer, IIS Express is a new alternative that allows this.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/28/introducing-iis-express.aspx

Answer 3

为了避免其他人不得不走得更远，如果您需要一个轻量级的Web服务器用于生产 ， 那么不建议使用IIS-Express（单独使用）。