How do I remotely access self-hosted Nancy service?

Question

I am creating a simple Windows service that hosts a Nancy instance to provide views of its internal data. Everything works as expected when using a browser on the local mach

Answer 1

Use the HostConfiguration and let Nancy make the URL reservations automaticaly for you.

var config = new HostConfiguration
{
    RewriteLocalhost = true,
    UrlReservations = new UrlReservations { CreateAutomatically = true }
};
host = new NancyHost(new Uri("http://localhost:8080"), new DefaultNancyBootstrapper(), config);
host.Start();

Note that this will force ACL to create network rules for new ports if they do not already exist.