Hi all I have setup two sites under one Umbraco 13. I can get to one site but not the other so I setup the culture and host as below Site 1 - http://localhost:1234 Site 2 - http://localhost:1234/siteTwo This works and I'm able to get to the second site. Is the only way to have these working for two separate domains is if I had two domains as Site 1 - http://domainOne Site 1 - http://domaintwo Is by setting up IIS on my machine? So I can't do this using IIS express (that comes with Visual Studio)?

IIS Express requires alot of haxx to listen on non-localhost. I'd setup IIS and use

siteone.localho.st

which already has DNS. You may need to create and install self-signed certificates since the ASP.NET development certificates won't apply, or maybe you could use non-https to browse the frontends. Still, it feels like there should be an easier way... **EDIT**: There is, see rest of thread

Closest I've gotten is with Kestrel and hosting on multiple ports on localhost

How do you actually do that for the same web project? Just setup multiple application URLs in the launch profile?

yes, exactly. There is the

applicationUrl

option and you can add multiple base urls separated by semicolons

That's hella easier than my suggestion 🙂

Do you have a link I could review as I'm not sure what I'm doing to get this working with kestrel?

Well here is a link to my URL Tracker package: https://github.com/Infocaster/UrlTracker/blob/v13%2Fdevelop/test%2FUrlTracker.Resources.Website%2FProperties%2FlaunchSettings.json

I have followed what you have on line 34 and got mine working, thanks for that! I had app.UseHttpsRedirection() in my startup.cs file, make sure that is disabled or it will just redirect you to the https version (anyone reading this)

FYI, you can pop as many URLs in there as you want - and they can all be HTTPS if you want...

"applicationUrl": "https://localhost:44345;https://localhost:44346;https://localhost:44347",

So you mean just add line 34?

Some guy here had an real easy multi-site option also for IIS express... But I can't remember who it was

@Jason @D_Inventor @kdx-perbol as for configuring this on a production basis, point both domains to the site folder, and configure in Umbraco under the configure host names?

I'm not really sure what you mean by "point domains to folders". As long as the domain points to your application, you can let umbraco do the rest

Also, if port numbers are a pain I believe you can get kestrel to use wildcards for any given port including 80/443. So long as you set up your hosts file you could feasibly get any domain working locally.

If you run on windows then you have to keep in mind that iis usually occupies ports 80 and 443, at least if you're using iis at all

My aim is to never install IIS on a development machine ever again. It installs and turns on a lot of stuff that a development machine shouldn't really have installed/enabled.