Quick Development Environment Setup - mbalex99/Rooster GitHub Wiki

This quick development environment is only recommended. As developers you should familiarize yourself with the best development environment setup and are more than welcome to customize it.

This is only safe in a development environment and is highly recommended that you do not use these settings in a production or public setting.

Set up your host file

1. Go to your hosts file ("C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts") and open it up for editing
2. Add the following line "127.0.0.1 rooster.local"

Set up IIS

1. Add an application pool called "rooster.local"
2. Make sure the application framework target is .NET Framework v4
3. Create a new website called "rooster.local"
4. Select the application pool and select the "rooster.local" application pool
5. Set the physical path to point to the "Rooster.Website" folder
6. Go to Visual Studio and build Rooster.sln

Add the application pool user

1. In you SQL Server Instance, add a new user to the database. Do not search for the name: simply add "IIS APPPOOL\rooster.local"
2. Now for the server roles, select "dbcreator", "public", "serveradmin", and "sysadmin"