Host MVC web app without IIS [closed]

Answer 1

Take a look at the following example.

http://www.asp.net/signalr/overview/signalr-20/getting-started-with-signalr-20/tutorial-signalr-20-self-host

http://owin.org/

http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/hosting-aspnet-web-api/use-owin-to-self-host-web-api

http://blog.micic.ch/net/owin-and-razor-enabled-mvc-application-framework

Regards

Answer 2

If the application is meant for production use, you need to host it under an IIS environment. IIS Express is intended as a development server and not for production use.

Otherwise, IIS Express is the way to go if you want someone else to work on it in a local development environment.

Answer 3

You can look into IIS Express http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/868/iis-express-overview/ Although it is still IIS it's much lighter weight and might be what you need:

• It doesn't run as a service or require administrator user rights to perform most tasks
• IIS Express works well with ASP.NET and PHP applications
• Multiple users of IIS Express can work independently on the same computer.

Answer 4

Have you looked into IIS Hostable Web Core?

This feature basically allows you to host the entire IIS functionality within your own process. This gives you the power to implement scenarios where you can customize entirely the functionality that you want "your Web Server" to expose, as well as control the lifetime of it without impacting any other application running on the site.