Botframework-sdk: [Question] Deploying bot to personal server

[megancooper]

System Information (Required)

• SDK Language: .NET/C#
• Development Environment: LOCALHOST

I have made a bot but I want to deploy it to a personal server. I have tried to do research before posting a question but I haven't found anything online that really answers my questions. So, I know to deploy the bot to a server I need to use Web Deploy but I was wondering how the messaging endpoint gets set up? Would I simply be able to call https://myserver/mybot/api/messages without any setup? Sorry for my poorly worded question, I am new to this.

[sayyednazeer]

@megancooper

If you want to deploy it on your personal server then it should be an HTTPS server.

STEP To DEPLOY :

1. Publish your bot.
2. Add a website in your IIS and assigne this publish bot path.
3. The URL of your publish bot will be yours endpoint and some thing like https://myserver/mybot/api/messages
4. Register your bot and set this as your endpoint.

DONE.

[nrobert]

Your question is about messaging endpoint. In fact, this "magic" is done by ASP.Net as you can see in your WebApiConfig.cs file located in App_Start in your project:

```C#
// Web API routes
config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
```

This is how messages coming to https://yourServer/api/messages are routed to MessagesController

You can have a look to more documentation here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/mvc/controllers/routing

[nwhitmont]

@megancooper

The Bot Framework works with bots deployed on any hosting service, cloud or on-prem, _as long as you have an internet-accessible endpoint and a valid HTTPS cert._

The Bot Framework requires that the x.509v3 certificate exposed by your endpoint be current and valid. Most of the checks for "current and valid" are standard checks for server certs: the CN must match the hostname, it must not be expired, it must not be listed in a CRL, it must have the correct set of EKUs, etc.

Most importantly, your cert must chain to a root certificate authority trusted by Microsoft. The latest list of these CAs is available here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/31634.microsoft-trusted-root-certificate-program-participants-v-2016-april.aspx

For more information on deploying your bot, see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bot-framework/deploy-bot-overview

Relates to:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40888489/bot-framework-without-azure-possible
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44558760/deploy-bot-in-local-iis-and-incle-it-in-custom-chat-in-a-webpage/44571251#44571251

[megancooper]

I have successfully deployed the bot and am trying to access it from the bot emulator using:
https://localhost/MyBot/api/messages and this connection is successful. However, when I send a message I get a Request to 'https://localhost/Bridget/api/messages' failed: [500] Internal Server Error in the emulator. Is this because I need to use tunneling software like ngrok to chat with the bot? Or can I actually do this through local host?

[megancooper]

Or do I need to change the https:// endpoint to api/messages. Currently IIS has it as simply https://localhost/MyBot

If so, how do I accomplish this?

[megancooper]

@sayyednazeer @nrobert @nwhitmont Thanks for the help. I was wondering if anyone knew how to solve the above issue ^^

[AmiirArtz]

@megancooper did you solved this issue? I'm new at this topic so I wan to learn how to deploy a bot in my server.

[megancooper]

Sorry @AmiirArtz it's been a while and I can't remember what I did to resolve the issue. (I believe it had something to do with allowing post requests to the app through IIS settings.) Are you experiencing the same issue?

[AmiirArtz]

Yes, now im developing a basic MVC program with the chatbot embeded inside... I'm giving a try to everything lol to get the bot working somewhere...

[nithishanf]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44558760/deploy-bot-in-local-iis-and-incle-it-in-custom-chat-in-a-webpage/44571251#44571251

I think this post has what Megan has said

[dnyati]

Your question is about messaging endpoint. In fact, this "magic" is done by ASP.Net as you can see in your WebApiConfig.cs file located in App_Start in your project:
// Web API routes
config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
This is how messages coming to https://yourServer/api/messages are routed to MessagesController
You can have a look to more documentation here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/mvc/controllers/routing

Is this applicable for SDK 4 as well?

[ulhasmorbale]

And the main thing is installing "The .NET Core Hosting Bundle" from here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/iis/?view=aspnetcore-3.1#install-the-net-core-hosting-bundle

I've spent 2 days to find only because of this it was giving 500 error as 500 is generic error and doesn't give clue.