Deploy a microsoft bot onto a local machine and host it

Question

I have built a bot using microsoft botframework and nodejs. Now, I want to deploy it to a local machine and later host it and get the https url. I understood that it should be running on IIS but i don't understand where to start first. Can anyone help me to deploy it onto a local machine and how to host it?

Javier Capello Javier Capello · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-14T15:35:46

Here's a good place to start!

You need to do the following

Install Restify
```
npm install --save restify
```

Set up your app to use Restify, here's a sample code:

var restify = require('restify');
var builder = require('botbuilder');

// Setup Restify Server
var server = restify.createServer();
server.listen(process.env.port || process.env.PORT || 3978, function () {
    console.log('%s listening to %s', server.name, server.url); 
});

// Create chat connector for communicating with the Bot Framework Service
var connector = new builder.ChatConnector({
    appId: process.env.MicrosoftAppId,
    appPassword: process.env.MicrosoftAppPassword
});

// Listen for messages from users 
server.post('/api/messages', connector.listen());

// Receive messages from the user and respond by echoing each message back (prefixed with 'You said:')
var bot = new builder.UniversalBot(connector, function (session) {
    session.send("You said: %s", session.message.text);
});

Run your bot with
```
node app.js
```
Download an open the BotFramework Emulator and set it to point to uri in which your bot is hosted, i.e.: http://localhost:3980/api/messages

Deploy a microsoft bot onto a local machine and host it

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