title: How to make ASP.NET Web API web-service available in local network
body: <p>I'm about to write a JSON-web-service (VS Express 2012 - ASP.NET WEB API), and now I want to test it by trying to get the data from my Android-app. So i tried to make my service available for the local network by doing this :</p>
  
  <p>-> changed from <code>localhost</code> to <code>192.168.1.52</code> in <code>applicationhost.config</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;site name="MyFirstWebApi" id="5"&gt;
       &lt;application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool"&gt;
           &lt;virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="c:\projects\MyFirstWebApi" /&gt;
       &lt;/application&gt;
       &lt;bindings&gt;
           &lt;binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:61802:192.168.1.52" /&gt;
       &lt;/bindings&gt;
  &lt;/site&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>-> and also changed Project-properties -> Web -> "Use local IIS-Webserver" -> project-url to <code>http://192.168.1.52:61802/</code></p>
  
  <p>But when I'm now trying to start the service, it gives me an error-messagebox:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The IIS-Express-webserver could not be started
    (Translated from german)</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>unfortunatly I can't see what's the exact error, because the VS-output is empty</p>
  
  <p>Anyone know's how to fix that or how to set this up correct?</p>