SignalR self hosting with owin

Question

I want to create an signalr app that will be self hosted using Owin, so to start off i tried to run the sample that is on https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/wiki/Self-host. But when i run the application and then navigate to /signar/hubs i get a 500 Server error. I get the same exception when i try to connect from my client app.

Do i need to add something else apart from what is in the sample code? or does anyone know of a good tutorial?

Answer 1

Things to check if trying to access from an external connection:

Are you hosting the server on all addresses or just localhost?

// use http://*:8080 to bind to all addresses. 
string url = "http://localhost:8080";

Make sure to run app as administrator.

Also, is the Windows firewall blocking the port you are using? I had to add an exception to allow incoming TCP connections on that port.