Self hosting

It's very easy to host ServiceStack in a console app or in a windows service. You just have to derive from AppHostHttpListenerBase instead of AppHostBase:

Complete C# Console Host Example

	using ServiceStack.ServiceInterface;
	using ServiceStack.WebHost.Endpoints;

	class Program {

		public class Hello {
			public string Name { get; set; }
		}

		public class HelloResponse {
			public string Result { get; set; }
		}

		public class HelloService : Service
		{
			public object Any(Hello request) 
			{
				return new HelloResponse { Result = "Hello, " + request.Name };
			}
		}

		//Define the Web Services AppHost
		public class AppHost : AppHostHttpListenerBase {
			public AppHost() : base("StarterTemplate HttpListener", typeof(HelloService).Assembly) { }

			public override void Configure(Funq.Container container) {
				Routes
	                            .Add<Hello>("/hello")
	                            .Add<Hello>("/hello/{Name}");
			}
		}

		//Run it!
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			var listeningOn = args.Length == 0 ? "http://*:1337/" : args[0];
			var appHost = new AppHost();
			appHost.Init();
			appHost.Start(listeningOn);

			Console.WriteLine("AppHost Created at {0}, listening on {1}", DateTime.Now, listeningOn);
			Console.ReadKey();
		}
	}

Complete F# Console Host Example

open System
open ServiceStack.ServiceHost
open ServiceStack.WebHost.Endpoints
 
type Hello = { mutable Name: string; }
type HelloResponse = { mutable Result: string; }
type HelloService() =
    interface IService with
        member this.Any (req:Hello) = { Result = "Hello, " + req.Name }
 
//Define the Web Services AppHost
type AppHost =
    inherit AppHostHttpListenerBase
    new() = { inherit AppHostHttpListenerBase("Hello F# Services", typeof<HelloService>.Assembly) }
    override this.Configure container =
        base.Routes
            .Add<Hello>("/hello")
            .Add<Hello>("/hello/{Name}") |> ignore
 
//Run it!
[<EntryPoint>]
let main args =
    let host = if args.Length = 0 then "http://*:1337/" else args.[0]
    printfn "listening on %s ..." host
    let appHost = new AppHost()
    appHost.Init()
    appHost.Start host
    Console.ReadLine() |> ignore
    0

When either of those are running you can call your hello service at http://localhost:1337/hello/World!

Host as a Windows or Linux Console Host, Windows Service or Linux Daemon

This will run in as a Console Host in any Operating System with .NET 3.5 or Mono installed. In addition this can also be wrapped-up and run inside a Windows Service or run as a Linux Daemon which you can optionally elect to serve behind Apache or Nginx reverse proxies.

Easily Convert to an ASP.NET Web Service

As both AppHostBase and AppHostHttpListenerBase follow the same API they are easily convertible between the two. Here's some step-by-step instructions showing you how to convert an F# Console Host to an ASP.NET Web Service on OSX!

Community Resources

• ServiceStack SelfHosted Performance Boost by @rudygt
• Self-hosting ServiceStack serving razor'd HTML by @ienablemuch