Self Hosting Nancy

Self Hosting Nancy

You can use a console app to host Nancy. Simply install the Nancy.Hosting.Self NuGet package and use the code below to host Nancy.

var nancyHost = new Nancy.Hosting.Self.NancyHost(new Uri("http://localhost:1234"));
nancyHost.Start();

Console.ReadLine();
nancyHost.Stop();

You can then define your Modules etc and they will get hit as expected.

HttpListenerException

Note that on Windows hosts a HttpListenerException may be thrown with an Access Denied message. To resolve this the URL has to be added to the ACL.

On Windows Vista/Server 2008 or later, execute the following in PowerShell or CMD running as administrator:

netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:1234/ user=DOMAIN\username

Replace DOMAIN\username with your domain and username or your computer name and username if you are not joined to a domain. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733768.aspx for more information.

Also but the port may need to be opened on the machine or corporate firewall to allow access to the service.