ASP.NET Core 2.0 - Deploy to IIS

Question

Hoping someone has some insight on problems with hosting .NET Core 2.0 apps in IIS

I'm trying to deploy my simple WebAPI project to IIS. Here are the steps I've taken:

• Published to a folder.
• Folder contains web.config
• I start a new website in IIS
• for the physical path, I choose the published folder from step 1 above
• I have AspNetCoreModule installed on my machine. Confirmed this by clicking "Modules" in IIS for this newly created website
• When visiting the URL, I get HTTP 404 errors.

Given that these steps to deploy to IIS is very different than what I've experienced for other .NET Framework apps I'm used to, I'm not sure why this is failing for me.

Answer 1

My problem was I needed two extra pieces of software:

1. Windows server hosting (https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/windows)
2. URL Rewrite Module

Answer 2

This should be a comment but i don't have enough reputation.

I had had same issue and I have solved it in following way:

1. Create folder (with application) on this path C:\inetpub\wwwroot
2. On IIS create new web app with physical path on \wwwroot\yourapp

Make sure that you have installed "Internet Information Services Hostable Web Core" (you can add it in Windows Features)