Windows – How to stop IIS from listening port 80 on specific IP

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My server has numerous IPs and IIS running numerous sites. I need to free one specific IP from IIS listening port 80.

How to do that?

I can't manually open each site bindings and see if it is using given IP and port 80.

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To stop IIS from listening to port 80:

For Windows 10, open the Start Menu and search for Administrative Tools. (Or just run it directly from the Control Panel.)
Double-click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager to open.
Select your Connection (having either your computer name or localhost).
In the list of Actions on the right side menu, you can stop and start the connection:

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IIS doesn't allow you to start an HTTP (without an s) Site on port 443.

In your screenshot, in the 'Site Bindings' window, the type is http, which won't run.

Here what to do:

Create a self-signed certificate from IIS' wizard. (because IIS also doesn't allow you to open an HTTPS website without one) unless you use PowerShell command, which will end you up with the error of port 443 being in use.
'Add a Website' with the binding being 'https' and choose your self-signed certificate. screenshot detailing everything
Site runs perfectly!

Extra content for reference:

I had the same error. Same everything as you OP. But considering that IIS doesn't allow you to open a site on port 443 without a certificate, how was I able to create a site? I was using PowerShell command:

New-WebSite -Name my-website -Port 443 -HostHeader my-website -PhysicalPath "$env:systemdrive\inetpub\wwwroot\my-website"

Which creates you a Site but it doesn't start automatically and if you attempt to start it via PowerShell, you will get this error:

Start-WebSite : Cannot create a file when that file already exists. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800700B7)

or if you start it manually through the IIS' GUI, you will get that error being 443 is in use which is completely false in reality.

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