title: Configuring IIS Express failed
body: <p>When I try and open an existing website, Visual Studio opens this error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Initializing the applicationhost.config file failed.  Copying the applicationhost.config file to \servername\folder\folder2\folder3... failed.  The network name cannot be found.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The problem is that the \servername cannot be found.  How do I change that servername to the one that does exist?</p>
  
  <p><code>\\servername</code> is offline, so how is visual studio even using that server?</p>
  
  <p>Any help is appreciated.</p>