I can get the hello world page to work fine. But I want to see if my friend could access...but he get's an access denied page. Is this possible for other's to connect to my page I'm running on the Web Matrix server.

More information is needed to determine the resolution. For example, is your web matrix server locally (on your pc) or a network server, so that your friend has access, security with permissions to the network server. Also if the web matrix server is locally, your friend could have a seperate account on your pc again with access, security with permissions to the web matrix server.

Hope this helps.