Access IIS https website from outside network

Question

Currently I have a https website setup locally on the Azure VM with a custom hostname : <websitename>.<domainname>.com and bound to the localhost 127.0.0.2 in the hosts.etc on port 443

Consider example hostname as web.microsoft.com

Website bindings in IIS are

type:https  
hostname:web.microsoft.com  
port:443  
IP Address:127.0.0.2  

Hosts.etc file      
127.0.0.2   web.microsoft.com  

Accessing it locally on the VM itself https://web.microsoft.com/admin/login.aspx works fine.

Port 443 is open on the Azure VM and inbound firewall rule is set in windows to allow connections on 443

If I try to access it outside of the network using the public IP address of the VM this doesn't work eg: https://45.60.200.110/admin/login.aspx.

I have other non-https websites which work fine and can be accessed through the public IP ,only difference is they are not having hostname in the IIS website bindings.

Am I missing something or do I need to make some additional config?

Answer 1

only difference is they are not having hostname in the IIS website bindings.

If you put a hostname in the bindings, then that hostname also needs to be in the HTTP address that the client browses.

Set your binding like this and see what happens.