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JTW
JTW

Reputation: 3685

How to MSDeploy an ASP.NET Core app from command line? (csproj not project.json)

Can ASP.NET Core apps be deployed via msdeploy.exe and a .pubxml definition similar to what was possible for pre-.NET Core? This is the command that I've used previously:

msbuild myproj.csproj /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=<profile-name>.

If not, what is the preferred way to deploy an ASP.NET Core app from the command line?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 7197

Answers (3)

Buba Conteh
Buba Conteh

Reputation: 364

To deploy your asp.net core app to Azure web App simply do the following steps:

1. dotnet publishsomeproject.csproj -c release -o someDirectory
2. msdeploy.exe  -verb:sync -source:contentPath="someDirectory" -dest:contentPath="webAppName",ComputerName="https://WebAppName.scm.azurewebsites.net/msdeploy.axd",UserName="username",Password="password",IncludeAcls="False",AuthType="Basic"
-enablerule:AppOffline -enableRule:DoNotDeleteRule -retryAttempts:20 -verbose

Username and Password can be retrieved or set on the deployment preview section in the web app in Azure portal. I have set an env path for my msdeploy.exe which can be found usually here C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3.

Upvotes: 4

vijayrkn
vijayrkn

Reputation: 461

You can find documentation on the commandline usage here : https://github.com/aspnet/websdk/blob/dev/README.md#microsoftnetsdkpublish

You can use any of the below commands to publish using MSDeploy from commandline

msbuild WebApplication.csproj /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=<MsDeployProfileName> /p:Password=<DeploymentPassword>

or 

dotnet publish WebApplication.csproj /p:PublishProfile=<MsDeployProfileName> /p:Password=<DeploymentPassword>

You can find samples of various profiles here - https://github.com/vijayrkn/PublishProfiles/tree/master/samples

To fix the errors. make sure you run restore first before running the publish command:

dotnet restore

Upvotes: 4

dbattaglia
dbattaglia

Reputation: 678

One approach using the dotnet cli tool is the dotnet publish command.

dotnet restore
dotnet publish -c Release -o output

This will restore all NuGet dependencies and then create a release build in a folder named output. You can then "xcopy deploy" it, add to a Dockerfile or do whatever else you need to do.

Note that this works with csproj based projects using newer versions of the dotnet cli tool (which no longer support project.json files).

Upvotes: 0

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