Host .net core application running on .net 4.6.2 on IIS

Question

I have an .net core application that uses certain .net framework dlls.For this reason, I had to run .net core on .net framework 4.6.2. It works fine of visual studio 17 but cannot host on IIS server. I am receiving

An error occurred while starting the application.

.NET Framework X86 v4.0.30319.42000
| Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting version 1.1.2
| Microsoft Windows 6.1.7601 S

Any suggestion is highly appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks you for you suggestions.

The problem was appsettings.production.json and appsettings.Staging.json. These files were empty.

I am not sure what this was not issue while debugging the application from Visual Studio. Anyway, I add minimal codes to those file to overwrite the appsettings.json and it worked like a charm.

Answer 2

At lot of things can go wrong with ASP.NET Core. At first, I'll go to server, and see correct version of .NET Core is installed.

C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App

1.1.2 version should be there. If not, you'll have to install it.