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. 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.