In this article you will find:
Goal
Sitefinity .NET Core Renderer is a standalone application that is deployed separately from Sitefinity CMS to offload the task of rendering pages as HTML for improved scalability and performance, and reduce the CPU load for the main CMS node. This new decoupled architecture is quick to setup and deploy.
This article will provide information for installing the Hawksearch widgets for Sitefinity .NET Core Renderer.
Steps for Setting-up the Project
Prerequisite
Sitefinity version 13.3.7600
Hawksearch .NET Core Renderer NuGet package
.NET Core project with installed Hawksearch Renderer UI NuGet package
Disable 'Use cached controller container assemblies' option in Sitefinity Advanced Settings
Open Sitefinity Advanced Settings (your-website-url/Sitefinity/Administration/Settings/Advanced)
Select ‘Feather’ from the settings list
Uncheck 'Use cached controller container assemblies'
Click ‘Save Changes’ button
Steps to install the connector
Install the NuGet package
Build your solution
Modify HawkRoutesInitializer.cs - comment or remove the following two rows of code located in the HawkRoutesInitializer.cs (located in the App_Start folder) in case you already have them in your Global.asax.cs or anywhere else in your project:
config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();
config.EnsureInitialized();