In order to use the AspNetCoreModule on a Windows server, make sure you install the Windows Server Hosting Bundle from the runtime download site. When you run in IIS, there's an AspNetCoreModule that handles the interaction between IIS and Kestrel. When building Web applications, you'll want to break out what server serves appropriately. This article discusses the issues in terms of IIS, but the concepts can be applied to other Web Servers on other platforms with different configuration settings. On Windows this typically means you'll be running Kestrel behind IIS as shown in the figure above.Īlthough I show IIS here, the same principles discussed in this article can also be applied to other Web Servers that act as front ends, such as nginx, Apachy or HA Proxy on Linux.
The front end can handle static file serving, content caching, static file compression, SSL certs and managing multiple sites tied to a single IP on port 80. Incoming requests hit the front end server and it forwards the inbound requests from port 80 or 443 typically to Kestrel on its native port.
While it's certainly possible to run Kestrel on a single port directly, most commonly you typically end up running Kestrel behind a front end Web server that acts as a proxy. Kestrel has no support for host headers so you can't run multiple Kestrel instances on the same port, content caching, automatic static file compression or advanced features like lifetime management of the server process.
It's considerably faster in raw throughput than running ASP.NET, but at the same time it's also a basic Web Server that doesn't have support for the full feature set of a full Web Server platform like IIS, Apache or even something more low level like nginx. Kestrel is very high performance Web server that is optimized for raw throughput. Unlike classic ASP.NET which integrated tightly with IIS, ASP.NET Core handles its own Web server processing through a default Web server implementation that is Kestrel. Kestrel is ASP.NET Core's internal Web Server and when you run an ASP.NET Core application you usually run Kestrel as part of the. I've shown the following diagram a few times recently, but it's good to show it yet again to visualize how IIS and Kestrel interact when you run ASP.NET Core applications under IIS: There's more to a Web Server than merely serving up content from a source, and full featured Web Servers provide a number of features that Kestrel does not provide natively and arguably shouldn't.
When running ASP.NET Core applications in production, it's a recommended practice to run a front end Web Server to handle the ‘administrative’ part of a typical Web server. In this post I revisit that discussion that revolved around handing off static content to IIS, and in this post I add a few additional considerations regarding client side routing and root URL handling.
Based on the discussions that followed, the most interesting part of that post revolved on how to set up IIS correctly to allow separation of the API content that the Web API application creates and the static content that the rest of the site requires. I talked about this in my More on Running ASP.NET Core on IIS post a few weeks back. There are a number of ways how you can handle the interaction between IIS and Kestrel in regards to what server handles what specific types of requests. When running ASP.NET Core under IIS, a special module handles the interaction between IIS and the ASP.NET Kestrel Web Server. IIS is very efficient at handling static content and content re-routing and in this post I describe how you can configure ASP.NET Core applications using the AspNetCoreModule and IIS Rewrite Rules. Can't find packages? Ask your distribution or contribute to creating them! Note that all of those packages are community-developed and maintained, Nextcloud currently only provides a the Appimage you can download above.If you're running ASP.NET Core under Windows with IIS, you'll want to take advantage of letting IIS serve up your static content and handle your HTML 5 Client and home routes. See the latest state and more packages in this post on our forums. You can already find Nextcloud Desktop client packages included in openSUSE Tumbleweed, Arch Linux, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu.
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