Getting Started

If you want to start using the standard Firely Server in your own Windows environment, follow the steps on this page to install and run the server.
For non Windows systems, or if you want to use Docker for Windows, please look at the Using Firely Server on Docker section.

  1. Download the Firely Server binaries and the license file from Simplifier.net.

  2. Extract the downloaded files to a location on your system, for example: C:FirelyServer. We will call this the working directory.

  3. Put the license file in the working directory.

  4. In the working directory create a new JSON file and name it appsettings.json. You will use this file for settings that you want to differ from the defaults in appsettings.default.json. For more background on how the settings are processed, see Firely Server settings

5. Open appsettings.json, copy the LicenseFile setting from appsettings.default.json to it and change this property to the name of your license file. For example

"License": {
    "LicenseFile": "firelyserver-trial-license.json"
}

Configuration

The section Configuring Firely Server explains how you can further configure the Firely Server.

Running Firely Server

Important

The next step assumes you have a .NET Core environment installed. If not, please download and install ASP.NET Core Runtime 6.x.xx Hosting Bundle before you continue. Choose the latest security patch to mitigate security issues in previous versions.

When you have completed your configuration changes, start the server. Open a command prompt or Powershell, navigate to your working directory and execute:

> dotnet .\Firely.Server.dll

Access Firely Server

Firely Server will by default run on port 4080 of the system. Check if Firely Server is running correctly, open a browser and navigate to localhost:4080.

You will see the following homepage:

_images/localhost_home.png

The following links provide documentation and samples for testing the Firely Server restful endpoint: