Running ServiceStack self-hosted application without administrative privileges

Question

I'm trying to host my ServiceStack service in a console host. I need the ability to launch my service without administrative privileges. But when I try to do this, I get an exception "Access is denied. An unhandled exception of type 'System.Net.HttpListenerException' occurred in ServiceStack.dll".

• There's seems to be a solution for Web API but I haven’t found such for ServiceStack.
• I tried to do this using restrict attributes with no success.
• I also tried solution from here, but this command requires user to have administrative privileges.

Is there any way to launch my ServiceStack self-hosted app without administrative privileges?

Answer 1

To get ServiceStack running without administrative privileges you need to ensure that:

• The host protocol is http
• The hostname you use can only be localhost
• You use a port number higher than 1024

So for example these hosts can be created without administrative privileges:

• http://localhost:8000
• http://localhost:8080
• http://localhost:1050 ... etc.

Hostnames using wildcards, domains other than localhost, ports lower than 1024 or https require admin rights, unless a rule has been granted using netsh on Windows, or httpcfg on mono platforms.

• http://localhost:80
• http://+:8080
• http://*:8080
• http://domain.com:8080
• http://domain.com:80
• https://localhost:8080