Server Discovery

The single most important setting that at least needs to be customized is the URL to your web server which delivers the update configuration file. The following possibilities are offered to you to choose from.

Configuration options

Make your own custom build

Check out the projects source code, edit the NV_API_URL_TEMPLATE value in CustomizeMe.h and build your very own copy of the updater. Done!

Consider signing your executable

Consider signing the resulting binary with your (company's) code signing certificate.

Provide and ship a configuration file

Assuming your final updater executable name being nefarius_HidHide_Updater.exe you can create and package a JSON file called nefarius_HidHide_Updater.json to be delivered alongside your product setup. As long as the file contents are valid JSON and the name matches the updater executable, that's all you need to do!

Minimal nefarius_HidHide_Updater.json example

{
    "instance": {
        "serverUrlTemplate": "https://vicius.api.nefarius.systems/api/example/updates.json"
    }
}

Protect the JSON file properly

Make sure to deliver both the executable and the configuration file to a location on the target machine that is not writable to non-elevated users (e.g. some sub-directory of Program Files or similar).
Bear in mind that any other (malicious) process running in the user context can edit the configuration file if you place the updater in e.g. the %LOCALAPPDATA% folder.

Edit the string table resource

Can be disabled during build

This method will not work if the updater binary is built with
NV_FLAGS_NO_SERVER_URL_RESOURCE set in CustomizeMe.h!

If you wish to both avoid compiling your own binary and shipping a configuration file, you can use Resource Hacker on the updater executable and edit the string table entry 105 as seen below:

Doing so will break the executable signature

If you use this method, beware that this will invalidate the signature of the executable.
Consider re-signing the resulting binary, if possible or avoid this method altogether.