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There doesn't seem to be a way to install ASP.NET Core Windows Hosting Bundle #735
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Thanks for raising this! The Windows Hosting Bundle is intentionally not supported by
dotnet-install.ps1. The script is designed specifically for CI scenarios where .NET needs to be installed without admin rights and without user interaction. The Hosting Bundle breaks these constraints:- It requires admin rights — it installs the ASP.NET Core Module (ANCM) into IIS, which is a system-level operation.
- It's a Windows
.exeinstaller, not an archive — the script works by downloading.zip/.tar.gzarchives and extracting them directly. There's no archive equivalent for the Hosting Bundle. - It's Windows/IIS-specific — the script is cross-platform (there's a bash counterpart
dotnet-install.sh), and the Hosting Bundle is fundamentally a Windows/IIS concept.
The
-Runtimeoptions (dotnet,aspnetcore,windowsdesktop) all correspond to extractable archives on the feed. The Hosting Bundle only exists as a.exeinstaller, so it can't be supported the same way.Hope that clarifies things! Similar context was discussed in #335 as well.
Reacted by FrulfumpCan this be added to the doco somewhere?
In particular, what is the Microsoft approved way to install the hosting bundle for CI processes
Our situation is we need to run the hosting bundle in a docker container - we are now just downloading the exe and running it but that doesn’t seem like best practice, but maybe it is?
Reacted by Frulfump
I see someone asked about this before, but via the install.ps1 there doesn't seem to be a way to install the hosting bundle
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-aspnetcore-10.0.10-windows-hosting-bundle-installer
This is the one that lets you host kestrel apps under IIS