feed-type-local.md

Creating a locally hosted feed

This guide is used to setup a new feed hosted on a local IIS Webserver.

Creating a config for local feed

Create a sleet.json config file to define a new package feed hosted on IIS.

sleet createconfig --local

Open sleet.json using your editor of choice, the file will look like similar to this

notepad sleet.json

{
  "username": "",
  "useremail": "",
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "myLocalFeed",
      "type": "local",
      "path": "C:\\myFeed",
      "baseURI": "https://example.com/feed/"
    }
  ]
}

For .netconfig, just create or edit the file directly in the desired location:

[sleet]
    username = ""
    useremail = ""

[sleet "myLocalFeed"]
    type = local
    container = feed
    path = C:\\myFeed
    baseURI = https://example.com/feed/

Set path to the local directory on disk where the feed json files will be written.

Change baseURI to the URI the http server will use to serve the feed.

Initialize the feed

Now initialize the feed, this creates the basic files needed to get started.

• The optional config value here corresponds to the filesystem path to the sleet.json or .netconfig
• the source value here corresponds to the name property used in sleet.json

sleet init --config C:\sleet.json --source myLocalFeed

sleet init --config C:\.netconfig --source myLocalFeed

Adding packages

Add packages to the feed with the push command, this can be used with either a path to a single nupkg or a folder of nupkgs.

sleet push -s myLocalFeed C:\PackagesFolder

Creating the feed's ASP.NET project

Create an empty ASP.NET Website project.

In the projects' web.config file add the following lines:

<configuration>
   <system.webServer>
      <staticContent>
          <mimeMap fileExtension=".nupkg" mimeType="application/zip"/>
          <mimeMap fileExtension="." mimeType="application/json"/>
      </staticContent>
   </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Uploading the feed to IIS

Publish your ASP.NET website to your IIS server.

Copy the entire local feed output folder to a path on your IIS server (including all subfolders).

Exposing the feed with IIS

In Internet Information Services Manager open your website, right click and choose Add Virtual Directory

• In Alias enter the URI you want to expose - in our example it's feed
• In Physical Path enter the path on the server you copied your path output directory to.

Using the feed

Add the feed as a source to your NuGet.Config file. In the example above the package source URL is https://example.com/feed/index.json