Glimpse.axd 403ing On IIS

Question

When trying to access /Glimpse.axd after I've published to IIS (7.5), I'm now receiving a 403 Forbidden response. Is there a setting in IIS that disables access to .axd files? Or is this something else entirely?

Gasteropod

Answer 1

This is usually due to the fact that your source IP Address is not allowed in the web.config section for Glimpse. I just ran in to this issue yesterday.

Look for this in your web.config file, it can go anywhere in the web.config file.

<glimpse enabled="true">
  <ipAddresses>
    <!-- List of IP addresses allowed to get Glimpse data. Optional. localhost (IPv4  &IPv6) by default -->
    <add address="x.x.x.x"/> <!--The ip of your machine -->
    <add address="::1"/>
  </ipAddresses>
</glimpse>

Zibet

nice to see no response on this. :) Offensive :) – Zibet

This worked for me. I was surprised because I didn't even have these additional settings, so I figured why bother. But adding them did the trick. – Niemeyer

This seems like an onerous task for a project with many developers... is there a better way than to have everyone supply their ip in web.config, or am I missing something? – Skantze

This hasn't helped for mine, I've added the ip address in, but I'm still getting a 403 :( – Disentomb

Can you fix the formatting? I tried but my edit was auto-rejected. – Embank

Answer 2

I got an error like this when trying to access http://leniel-pc:8083/glimpse.axd:

403 Forbidden
Ensure 'aa90::edad:55a5:7777:cd2c%11' is configured for Glimpse access.

After doing this:

<glimpse enabled="true">
  <ipAddresses>
    <!-- List of IP addresses allowed to get Glimpse data. -->
    <!--The ip of your machine -->
    <add address="aa90::edad:55a5:7777:cd2c%11"/>
  </ipAddresses>
</glimpse>

Problem solved! :D

Boito