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TheRoadrunner
TheRoadrunner

Reputation: 1499

ASP.NET Core MVC on Windows IoT (Raspbian Pi)

I am new to Windows IoT and am trying to get my first dot net core app running on a Raspberry Pi. It is not because I think the Raspbian Pi is the perfect place to host web sites, but my ambition is to implement a measurement and control system on the Pi, and make the whole thing accessible through a REST API. First things first, I wanted to create a standard dot net core app from the VS2017 template and get it running on the Pi.

The template built an App that was available on http://localhost:62100.

As I knew from previous experiments, the app was only listening on localhost, so I modified the Program class as follows:

public class Program
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        BuildWebHost(args).Run();
    }

    public static IWebHost BuildWebHost(string[] args)
    {
        var configuration = new ConfigurationBuilder()
            .AddCommandLine(args)
            .Build();
        var hostUrl = configuration["hosturl"];
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(hostUrl))
            hostUrl = "http://0.0.0.0:62100";

        return new WebHostBuilder()
            .UseKestrel()
            .UseUrls(hostUrl)
            .UseContentRoot(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory())
            .UseIISIntegration()
            .UseStartup<Startup>()
            .UseConfiguration(configuration)
            .Build();
    }
}

And now the server was also usable from my phone using the PC’s IP address.

In order to prepare the project for the Pi, I opened a PowerShell in the folder, where the project file resides (in my case C:\Users\\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Projects\AspNetCore\AspNetCore) and ran the command:

dotnet publish -r win10arm

And then I copied all of the files placed under bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.0\win10-arm\publish to the Pi and start the application from the PowerShell connected to the Pi:

  .\AspNetCore.exe

The Pi (after some deep thought) answers as when it was run on the PC:

  [192.168.200.106]: PS C:\CoreApplications\AspNetCore> .\AspNetCore.exe
  Hosting environment: Production
  Content root path: C:\CoreApplications\AspNetCore
  Now listening on: http://0.0.0.0:62100
  Application started. Press Ctrl+C to shut down.

But trying to access the server from my browser (http://192.168.200.106:62100) times out with ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT.

What am I missing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 625

Answers (1)

Michael Xu
Michael Xu

Reputation: 4432

You need to add the port to firewall with following cmdlet in powershell,by default ASP.Net Core binds to http://localhost:5000.

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ASPNet Core 2 Server Port" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=62100

Upvotes: 1

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