I have recently started having problems accessing a website held locally on my Windows 10 laptop under IIS 10. I constantly received the ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED message.
Nothing at all is saved to the IIS logs or the event logs. This is a static html site and the IUSR account has full access. When testing the connection settings in IIS Mgr I receive the following:
Authentication : The user name or password is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007052E)
Authorization : The credentials used to access the specified physical path are invalid. Verify the credentials and test these settings again.
As far as I know the IUSR account has no password and is created when IIS is first run, so I'm assuming at this stage that the IUSR account is corrupted somehow. I have uninstalled IIS but the account remains behind and I cannot find a way to manually remove it. I have tried using appcmd but there does not seem to be a function for removing the IUSR account.
Any help greatly appreciated.
P.S. I'm not an expert IIS admin, so forgive me if this is something straightforward.
Regards
Andrew
Edit: I have tried simply creating a new local account and using that with the same result.