Bill Bosacker

This is just my normal user blog for things that don't fit in the other blogs, but are tailored for the open source C/C++/C# and .NET communities.

Visual Studio 2008: Debugging Web Applications on IIS7

"Unable to start debugging on the Web server.  The IIS worker process for the launched URL is not currently running." 

This post is mostly for myself so that I don't forget the information, but when setting up a web site on a Windows Server 2008 machine with Visual Studio 2008 installed, you need to make sure that the IP address is set to All Unassigned (*).  In all previous server versions you must set a specific IP address to ensure that the web site starts (in the case of multiple web sites), but this is no longer required in IIS 7 and will cause debugging to fail if you do.

It took me over an hour to find the following post:

Re: Fault - VS 2008 IIS7 Debugging - "The IIS worker process for the launched URL is not currently running"

Posted: Thu, Sep 4 2008 07:28 PM by Bill Bosacker | with 4 comment(s)

Comments

mamu said:

thanks this post save my couple of hours.

# January 6, 2009 11:34 AM

Noel said:

THANK YOU!!!

# February 16, 2009 11:34 PM

Otoniel DIaz said:

Thanks, this solve my problem that was giving me a really big headache

# January 6, 2010 3:57 PM

theITvideos said:

Hi there. I have a Quick question.

I have exactly the same problem. I am running VS.Net 2008 with IIS7 and I get the error message as:

"Unable to start debugging on the Web server.  The IIS worker process for the launched URL is not currently running."

I am little newbie, could you please show me step by step on how to make the IP address set to All Unassigned.

Thank you. :)

I will be very grateful to you.

Best regards.

Sid

# November 25, 2010 10:46 PM
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