This article explains how to host Sitefinity CMS on an IIS instance and make it accessible to the ASP.NET Core Renderer application. You can use this setup for local development purposes.
After you have hosted your Sitefinity CMS on an IIS, depending on the port setup, you can do the following:
When Sitefinity CMS is the only running application that listens to a specific port, such as 80 or 433, you can configure the Renderer application in one of the following ways:
appsettings.json
When Sitefinity CMS is hosted alongside other applications on the same port, the applications are differentiated by their domain names.
NOTE: The following procedure assume that Sitefinity CMS is hosted with domain name mysitefinity.com, under the default ports – 80 and 443.
.nupkg
Content
HostRewriteModule.dll
NOTE: The folder must to be accessible by the IIS. The file must remain in this folder for as long as the extension is used. Deleting the file or its folder can cause issues.
AppGatewayHostRewriteModule
localhost
appSettings.json
Sitefinity
NOTE: You can add a binding in your hosts file to the same domain - mysitefinity.com. The binding must point to the IP Address of your IIS instance. Then, you use that binding in the appsettings.json file of the Renderer.
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