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Coudn't connect to the remote computer error - Visual Studio Web Deploy

I'm trying to Publish/Deploy an Asp.net MVC EF Code First application to the server through Web Deploy option using Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition IDE. The server is connected through a VPN connection and is able to be pinged from the publishing ( local) machine.

As per the error message suggestion , Installed Web Deploy 3.6 in the server and the Web Management Services ( WMSVC) is running successfully in the Server with IIS 8.0 . Also, made sure that the WMSVC has remote connection enabled . Now, doubting whether any Firewall rules may be the culprit but not sure or whether any other issues. Tried , checked the server ports 80 and 8172 which shows as below 

netstat -aon | findstr :8172
  TCP    0.0.0.0:8172           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       4
  TCP    [::]:8172              [::]:0                 LISTENING       4
netstat -aon | findstr :80
  TCP    0.0.0.0:80           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       4
  TCP    [::]:80             [::]:0                 LISTENING       4

This means Port is disabled? Or chances of any other things missing to get this deployment done successfully? Thanks in advance.

It shows the following error , Error Img

Solution

  • Resolved this by creating a public ip instead of the VPN connection and enabled the ports. Also, site name was prepended site name with "Default Web Site/".