SharePoint 2013 : Cannot connect to the targeted site.
While creating a new development environment I ran into the following error:
Cannot connect to the targeted site. This error can occur if the specified site is not hosted on the local system. SharePoint solutions work only with locally-installed versions of SharePoint Foundation or SharePoint Server. Remote development is supported only for apps for SharePoint 2013.
Usually this error pops us if you did the following:
Edit host file
127.0.0.1 urlofmywebapp
However, as my development machine is running in my own domain, my hostfile is empty and the site is accessed through the DNS. The fix is however the same. Adding the IP of the server to the host file did the trick.
10.0.0.100 urlofmywebapp
This is supposed to get fixed in a future version of the Office Developer tools.
Comments
Anonymous
December 17, 2013
use http://localhost:portno of ur site/ then click on validate....if validate successful then deploy as farm solutionAnonymous
January 10, 2014
Updated my local host and worked for me tooAnonymous
January 20, 2014
Hello, I recently faced the same problem. I hope that this post will help you to resolve your problem. algrandi.azurewebsites.net/.../sharepoint-2013-cannot-connect-to-the-targeted-siteAnonymous
November 05, 2014
Thanks! This worked locally on VS2012 + Win Srv 2008Anonymous
November 27, 2014
Thanks this worked wonderfully. It is however ridiculous that a bug like this exists at all. Pick up your game MS.Anonymous
April 04, 2015
Sir it not working on my machine...can any one help me...as I m beginnerAnonymous
November 12, 2015
No, it does not work for my Office 365 SharePoint Online, still finding solution.Anonymous
November 15, 2015
You should not have to do that for an Office 365 SharePoint site.