How to Get ASP.NET 5 Apps To Run Under IIS

Recently I've been working on a web application using ASP.NET 5 and today had to deploy it to a web server in our test environment. Here are the steps I took to get this to work:
  1. Published the website project in Visual Studio 2015 by right-clicking on the project and selecting "Publish", I used the file system publish option, and specified the 64-bit version of the runtime we're using (in this case, 1.0.0-beta5). This is important, as I was unable to get IIS to host this website using the x86 version. I specified a path outside of the solution directory for the publish output. Inside the publish directory, the publish process created 2 folders -- approot and wwwroot, as well as a file called web (no extension), and web.cmd.
  2. On the web server, I created a new folder for the website. Inside this folder, I placed the output from the publish (the approot and wwroot folders and the two web files).
  3. I created a new website in IIS on the web server. For the app pool, I selected .NET 4. For the physical directory, I selected the location of the wwwroot folder underneath the website folder (not the main wwwroot folder). For example, the physical path looked like c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mywebsite\wwwroot.
And that did the trick.

Comments

Popular Posts

Resolving the "n timer(s) still in the queue" Error In Angular Unit Tests

How to Get Norton Security Suite Firewall to Allow Remote Desktop Connections in Windows

How to Determine if a Column Exists in a DataReader

Fixing the "Please add a @Pipe/@Directive/@Component annotation" Error In An Angular App After Upgrading to webpack 4

Silent Renew and the "login_required" Error When Using oidc-client