Developer Licensing - Need access to features locally
I'm not sure if anyone else is struggling with this but I am finding development against Contour a real struggle because of the licensing restrictions in place on my local machine. I am trying to develop customisations and can't properly test them before handing over to the client (who has a valid license).
Is there any way at all of either getting a developers license that has full features on *.local or localhost only or a way to work around the current restrictions?
It isn't possible for you to get a copy of the license file from the client ?
I would only work on the valid domains and localhost, so you would have no use for it, other than localhost.
But I'm missing the feature to. Sometimes I develop a solution to a costumer, without knowing the correct domain, before until a week before deployement.
It would be nice if there was a default license in the package, that would only work on .local or localhost.
Sorry for the delayed reply, in this case I have managed to obtain a license file from the client and I will try Sean's solution which I hope will work. If it does then great, problem solved for my current situation however it is still potentially an issue for other developers.
I've just this moment bought Contour. When you go into the domain management section you're given the option to enter custom development domains AND the lic file includes localhost. So if it's possible try going to the domain manager for contour and download a new lic file.
Hi Sean, thanks for the update. I was aware of the ability to do this but it was not an option in my situation since the client had already purchased a license and setup their own domain. Generally speaking trial versions of software are full featured locally without any additional licensing requirements or setup.
Developer Licensing - Need access to features locally
I'm not sure if anyone else is struggling with this but I am finding development against Contour a real struggle because of the licensing restrictions in place on my local machine. I am trying to develop customisations and can't properly test them before handing over to the client (who has a valid license).
Is there any way at all of either getting a developers license that has full features on *.local or localhost only or a way to work around the current restrictions?
It isn't possible for you to get a copy of the license file from the client ?
I would only work on the valid domains and localhost, so you would have no use for it, other than localhost.
But I'm missing the feature to. Sometimes I develop a solution to a costumer, without knowing the correct domain, before until a week before deployement.
It would be nice if there was a default license in the package, that would only work on .local or localhost.
I don't know about contour but for Courier our development site has the .lic file in the bin, and we point our browsers to http://local.domain.com
So in the windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts file we have local.domain.com pointing to our dev site on 127.0.0.1, which gets around the domain issues.
Since they're umbraco products this technique might work for contour aswell.
@Sean: That is the same procedure I use, but I think Simon is missing the possibility to use Contour in a local dev-enviroment WITHOUT a licensefile.
That is what I am missing
Sorry for the delayed reply, in this case I have managed to obtain a license file from the client and I will try Sean's solution which I hope will work. If it does then great, problem solved for my current situation however it is still potentially an issue for other developers.
I've just this moment bought Contour. When you go into the domain management section you're given the option to enter custom development domains AND the lic file includes localhost. So if it's possible try going to the domain manager for contour and download a new lic file.
Hi Sean, thanks for the update. I was aware of the ability to do this but it was not an option in my situation since the client had already purchased a license and setup their own domain. Generally speaking trial versions of software are full featured locally without any additional licensing requirements or setup.
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