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Susannah Potts
Susannah Potts

Reputation: 827

How do I host my API 2 project externally?

I have a functioning API that I can launch from Visual Studio 2015, I can also clean and build it. It outputs a dll file with other supporting files but I don't understand how I take the build files and actually host them as an API.

How can I host my API 2 project externally?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (1)

Soviut
Soviut

Reputation: 91555

Like most Microsoft web technologies, you'll most likely have to host them on a web server running IIS.

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/2b481f/how-to-host-Asp-Net-web-api-on-iis-server/

Visual Studio has a wizard for publishing API services to IIS.

http://dotnetmentors.com/web-api/host-asp-net-web-api-in-iis-using-visual-studio-publish.aspx

If you don't have an IIS web server, you can host on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform which will provide an instance of IIS for you.

http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/data/using-web-api-with-entity-framework/part-10

Upvotes: 1

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