Question about iis hosting

[Toastedcranium]

I am attempting to use the template with modifications that I have made to serve my specific instance and publish it to a local IIS instance, I was trying to figure out how exactly it all works? When I am working locally in visual studio, I run self-host and it runs the program.cs console to listen to the localhost site and opens the home web page, how would this all work with iis trying to get it to run through there?

[StuFrankish]

Hi @Toastedcranium 👋

I'd suggest having a look at some of the Microsoft documentation around hosting with IIS:
Getting started with the IIS Manager in IIS 7 and IIS 8 and Host and deploy ASP.NET Core to IIS

In short though, while you're debugging your web app locally, you're app is running under Kestrel, which is a light weight web server included by default that allows the app to receive requests under http(s)://localhost:{portNumber}/ and respond.

When you deploy to IIS however, your app is run under IIS worker processes and IIS manages forwarding requests to your app based on how you have things configured. But I'd recommend having a read of those links above to start.

Hope that helps 😊