Friendly URLs for localhost ASP.NET websites

Question

I Use Visual Studio 2010 with ASP.NET 4.0 and IIS7. When I open my site, the URL looks like this

http://localhost:6549/Website/help/tab/contact-us

I want a friendly URL:

http://mysite/help/tab/contact-us

or anything that will help me to get rid of the Port 6549 from URL

http://localhost/Website/help/tab/contact-us

I use ASP.NET Development Server which is what Visual Studio use when you run a localhost website

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Wait !! Please make distinction between "Properties window" and "Property pages" of the project. I always tried your advices, but using "Property pages", and there is no such property like Use dynamic ports on that page. This property can be found only in the "Properties window"

Answer 1

Assuming it's the ASP.NET development server:

To get rid of the port number you need to do this - go to properties of the project - click the web tab - check the specific port and assign 80 There is also a virtual path setting here which you could set to /

Answer 2

Is your solution configured to use IIS and not the ASP.NET Development Server? There is also a property on the web application where you can specify the port (or allow for a random port to be chosen) - port 80 is the appropriate port - this requires administrator access to the process that is launching the web site.

Answer 3

Edit: I was thinking you can use your host file to redirect the user, but I checked and you can't redirect to a port.

If you have IIS7 on the machine, just make the location of your web development folder into a virtual directory on IIS.

Then you can access it by http://localhost/website/