The following article describes how to setup Sitefinity CMS to work with a standalone ASP.NET Core application as renderer.
You first install Sitefinity NuGet packages in an ASP.NET Core application. This enables the application to render ASP.NET Core pages and to serve as a Sitefinity CMS proxy for all other types of pages, created with Sitefinity.
The following procedure describes how to setup Sitefinity CMS to work with the .NET Core Renderer application locally – when both applications are hosted locally. After you have ran and tested this scenario and you can move to a cloud hosting or a mixed hosting configuration. For more information see Hosting configurations.
You install the Renderer in a separate ASP.NET Core application. If you do not have one, create it in the following way:
In your Renderer application, you must install the provided NuGet packages:
Progress.Sitefinity.AspNetCore.nupkg
Progress.Sitefinity.AspNetCore.Widgets.nupkg
Progress.Sitefinity.Renderer.nupkg
Perform the following:
After you have created the project and installed the NuGet packages, you must configure it to connect it to Sitefinity CMS. In Visual Studio, perform the following:
appSettings.json
The file should look in the following way:
Startup.cs
launchSettings.json
"commandName": "Project"
applicationUrl
The property should look in the following way: "applicationUrl": "https://localhost:5001;http://localhost:5000"
After creating and configuring your ASP.NET Core application, you have to configure your Sitefinity CMS. Perform the following:
To run the renderer, navigate to https://localhost:5001/Sitefinity or http://localhost:5000/Sitefinity
NOTE: You use these URLs to run the Renderer locally for development purposes. To setup the Renderer for production, you can use on of the hosting scenarios, described in Hosting configurations.
Sitefinity comes with a .NET Core Sitefinity template which allows you to quickly setup your renderer and start experimenting with it. To do this, you use the .NET CLI that comes with the .NET Core SDK.
To setup the .NET Core application, use the following video:
For Sitefinity CMS setup, use the following video:
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