Self-host of ASP.NET MVC application

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I have a full-working ASP.NET MVC application (consisting of 5 assemblies, .NET 4.5.1, ASP.NET MVC 5.2.2) which runs fine in Visual Studio (which uses IISExpress).

I would now like to have a console application which takes the MVC application and hosts it (self hosting).

I tried with Microsoft.Owin.Host.HttpListener and Nancy.Owin but while I get 404 pages my configurations lacks the mapping to my MVC-app.

I got

public class Startup
{
    public void Configuration(IAppBuilder app)
    {
        app.UseNancy();
    }
}

and

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        StartOptions so = new StartOptions("http://localhost:9000/");
        using (WebApp.Start<Startup>(so))
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Press Enter to Exit");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }

But obviously the configuration to use MyMvcApplication from the running MVC application is missing. How to do that? Or how to selfhost it otherwise?

The answers I found on the web refer to older versions and I was hoping to have a more easy way today.

asked 40 secs ago

ZoolWay

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Self-host of ASP.NET MVC application