Hi forum,

I have taken over a new customers website and I am trying to establish a local dev environment. Frontend runs fine, but when I try to enter backend (http://localhost:23060/umbraco/) it redirects to https://localhost/umbraco/ (i.e. a redirect removes port number and adds https) and then I get:

This site can’t be reachedlocalhost refused to connect. Try:

Checking the connection Checking the proxy and the firewall ERRCONNECTIONREFUSED

I am using IIS Express.

I have tried all variations of the below and then flushed DNS (chrome://net-internals/#dns), but nothing helps.

Uncommented parts or all of this:

    <rewrite>
      <rules>
<!--
        <rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url="(.*)" />
          <conditions>
            <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="localhost" negate="true" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
        </rule>
        <rule name="Force non-WWW" stopProcessing="true" enabled="true">
          <match url="(.*)" />
          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www\.(.*)$" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="https://{C:1}/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
        </rule>
-->
      </rules>
    </rewrite>

Added umbracoUseSSL = false

<appSettings>
  <add key="umbracoUseSSL" value="false" />
</appSettings>