Dependencies

You'll need:

• MongoDB - instructions here
• Redis - redis is not available for Windows but there's a port that's good enough for development - you'll need to build the executables using the instructions in the readme there and then just run redis-server.exe

Getting Started

1. update your hosts file so that www.thisisclassy.com points to 127.0.0.1

• open Wordpad as Administrator
• navigate to c:\windows\system32\etc\drivers\hosts
• append to the file: 127.0.0.1 www.thisisclassy.com
• open classy.sln, if you get warnings about needing to change your host to localhost, you'll need to manually update your IIS Express settings to serve from www.thisisclassy.com like so:

  • navigate to your c:\Users\[YOUR_USERNAME]\Documents\IISExpress\config

  • edit the file applicationhost.config (it may open automatically in VS but it's XML and may be edited in any text editor)

  • search for <sites>

  • find the child <site> element with a virtual directory pointing to this project

  • replace the <bindings> element of that <site> element with the following:

    <bindings>
      <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:8080:www.thisisclassy.com" />
      <binding protocol="https" bindingInformation="*:44300:www.thisisclassy.com" />
    </bindings>
    

• you should now be able to open MyHome.sln. warning: IISExpress doesn't like serving SSL content on anything except localhost so you might have to run VS as an Administrator (though this shouldn't pose too much of an issue for the most part since ssl is not required for local requests)