How do I install service stack 4 side-by-side with asp.net MVC 4?

Question

I've gone through all of the steps in the servicestack documentation and followed the advice of a similar post here on Stack Overflow, but whenever I try to access my "/api/" route, I get the following error:

Handler for Request not found: 


Request.HttpMethod: GET
Request.PathInfo: /api/metadata
Request.QueryString: 
Request.RawUrl: /api/api/metadata

Relevant sections of code:

AppHost:

public class HolidayEventPlannerAppHost : AppHostBase
    {
        public HolidayEventPlannerAppHost() : base("Holiday Event Planner App Host", typeof(HelloService).Assembly) { }

        public override void Configure(Funq.Container container)
        {
            SetConfig(new HostConfig { HandlerFactoryPath = "api" });
        }
    }

Routeconfig.cs:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
            routes.IgnoreRoute("api/{*pathInfo}");

            routes.MapRoute(
                name: "Default",
                url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );
        }

In addition, when I type "localhost:port/api" in my browser's address bar, the browser gets redirected to "localhost:port/api/api/metadata" which is where I get the error message. It won't let me access "localhost:port/api/metadata".

Answer 1

Finally someone that help to eliminate the metadata completely. You need to put:

SetConfig(new HostConfig
    {
        HandlerFactoryPath = "api",
        MetadataRedirectPath = "/"
    }); 

Answer 2

I am using ServiceStack 3.9.70, for me in order to use ServiceStack along with MVC WebApi I had to do this:

SetConfig(new EndpointHostConfig
    {
        ServiceStackHandlerFactoryPath = "sapi",
        MetadataRedirectPath = "sapi/metadata"
     });

This way I can use api for WebAPI and sapi for ServiceStack. Don't forget you need to modify the Web.Config also, full instruction here .

Answer 3

There's an existing template for hosting ServiceStack with MVC4 , you'd also want to ensure that your Web.config is properly configured for ServiceStack, which you can compare with the Mvc4 Web.Config .

More information about integration with MVC is available on the wiki .

Answer 4

I've had similar issues with this redirect path since using v4 of ServiceStack.

As a fix, I found that overriding the MetadataRedirectPath with the following HostConfig worked:

        SetConfig(new HostConfig
        {
            HandlerFactoryPath = "api",
            MetadataRedirectPath = "/metadata"
        });

I think without this config, a bug is being exposed in either how the default MetadataRedirectPath is determined or how the redirect url is combined with the handler factory path.