I get a 503 Error using the IP, but not when using the host name. IIS ASP.NET

Question

I am using IIS and my web application is asp.net created using visual studio 2017.

To the bindings I've added both 'any available'(*) and my local IP.

I Start the website and success! I can access it via the Hostname I have set.

Unfortunately, I can't access it via the IP and neither can other machines on the network. What's going on here?

Appears related to this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19554996/cant-access-web-api-with-ipport-but-can-with-localhostport-during-vs-debug-mo — sventechie, Jul 16 '18 at 19:30
Run Binding Diagnostics to learn the bindings, https://www.jexusmanager.com/en/latest/tutorials/binding-diagnostics.html 503 indicates that the request goes to another site. — Lex Li, Jul 16 '18 at 20:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 16 '18 at 20:46

Ok, So I edited the ApplicationHost.config file

<application path="/">
    <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="website-location" />
</application>

Then I got an error in the published (improvement...) web app's web.config file, which I solved using: This page about the exact issue.

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