Can I use 22536 port for SharePoint Apps development

Question

I am running SharePoint on Windows Server 2012 on my local Virtual Machine. SharePoint site on that server is installed on port 22536. I am trying to setup environment for SharePoint App development on that VM but I am stuck at DNS Setting for Forward Lookup Zone and I am not able to complete its setup. I am very newbie to SharePoint Apps and I am not sure if I am doing it correctly. I am following steps from this link to setup environment for App development.

Is it really necessary to run your sharepoint site from port 80 or 443 in order to develop or use sharepoint apps on sharepoint site or I am missing something in DNS configuration.

Please help me.

Thanks.

Answer 1

It is clearly mentioned in your given link at the end in Beware of host headers section that

If you are using a host header for your web application apps won’t just work for that web application. Because of how the redirect for the app domain works IIS will try to resolve the app url by using the default IIS web site, which of course doesn’t work. If you want to use host headers for your web applications you have to create an extra web application that is listening on port 80 (or 443 if you are using https) and that doesn’t have a host header.

This means that you have to create a web application like you normally would. You have to make sure that you select port 80 (or 443 if you are using https) and you should not fill in a host header. Note that you have to stop the Default Web Site in IIS in order to be able to do this. The web application will use the server name as its url. The web application can be empty except for a root site collection.

Solution

You can extend your SharePoint Site installed on port 22536 to port 80 & use it for your SharePoint Apps development