Unable to connect to ASP.NET MVC app running in Windows Container

Docker Desktop for Windows
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I was following this instruction for creating and running a Windows docker container. But I cannot get it to work, I tried from two different machines with the same result.

Instructions are here.

I started from the basic template project for ASP.NET (framework) MVC app - no HTTPS, using Visual Studio 2019. I published it according to the instructions in the post. and create a docker container exactly as described.

I’m able to create the container and run it, however when I navigate to localhost I am not able to reach the site.

It shows that its running on port 80

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Does anyone have any recommendations how to get this working? Perhaps the instructions are missing a step?

I’m using latest version of Docker for Windows, Windows 10 x64 Pro latest version , I think 1909

EDIT: With the container running I ran docker inspect on the container id and in the NetworkSettings I got the “IPAddress”: “172.17.50.25”,. I then entered that into the browser and was able to access the app.

Can someone explain how this is working? And why accessing it via localhost doesn’t?

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It looks like the Microsoft tutorial is overlooking that you’d need to add port mapping if you want to access the container’s service through localhost. Add - p 80:80 to the docker run command and see where that gets you.