Deploying ASP.NET Webhooks on web server with IIS7

Question

I have read through a few .NET Webhooks tutorials and since it is relatively new for .NET the examples are pretty limited. I followed the tutorials to create a Webhook project in VS2013. When I published the project I got three files (Global.asax. package.config, Web.config) and a bin folder with the dll's. Here are a couple of the tutorials:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2015/09/04/introducing-microsoft-asp-net-webhooks-preview/

http://www.dotnetcurry.com/aspnet/1245/aspnet-webhooks-receive-webhooks-from-github

All of the tutorial examples I have come across utilize Azure to publish their Webhook. We have our own web server with IIS7. I created a folder (appfolder) on our web server, another folder in it called mailchimp and placed the published files and bin folder in that folder so the path would be D:\\appfolder\\mailchimp. I then created a new Site in IIS7 named apps.mysite.org pointing to D:\\appfolder. So as I believe the URI for the webhook should be http://apps.mysite.org/mailchimp/api/webhooks/incoming/mailchimp . However, when I try to set the Webhook URL in my Mailchimp list it tells me "We couldn't connect to the specified URL.

What do I need to do to set up my web server to receive .NET Webhooks? I would assume that the api/webhooks/incoming/mailchimp is a folder path but have not been able to find what I need to place in there.

Any assistance to go further would be awesome.

Answer 1

The WebHook URI doesn't look right:

http://apps.mysite.org/mailchimp/api/webhooks/incoming/mailchimp

It should be of the form

http://apps.mysite.org/api/webhooks/incoming/mailchimp?code=<somesecret >

The <somesecret> is a random value that you set when registering the URI with MailChimp. Also, in practice it should also 'https' and not 'http'.

Hope this helps!

Henrik