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The Web Application Project is configured to use IIS. Could not find the server 'https://localhost/SampleApp' on the local machine. Make sure the local IIS server has been configured to support secure communications.

After configuring a new Windows 10 machine, I loaded my first solution to start fixing some bugs. However the web project in my solution failed to load with the following error message:

C:\projects\SampleApp/WebUI.csproj : error  : The Web Application Project SampleApp.WebUI is configured to use IIS.  Could not find the server 'https://localhost/SampleApp' on the local machine. Make sure the local IIS server has been configured to support secure communications.

Whoops! Seems that I forgot to configure something in IIS. I didn’t enable the SSL binding on my local IIS instance.

Let’s fix this!

  • Open up the Internet Information Services(IIS) Manager
  • Click on the Default Website

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  • Click on Bindings… in the Action pane on the right

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  • Click on the Add… button to open up the Add Site Binding dialog

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  • Specify https in the Type dropdown and choose an appropriate SSL certificate from the list

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  • Click OK to close the dialog. The SSL binding is added to the list

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  • Click on Close

Now I can reload the web project in Visual Studio without any error…

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