Publish ASP.NET Core 2.1 and Angular 6 project to Azure

Question

I've been trying to publish project to Azure web service. I generated the project using dotnet cli tool, when it generated the project i deleted the provided ClientApp folder and generated a new Angular project using Angular CLI. Now I have Angular 6 on frontend and Asp.NET core 2.1 on the backend with Entity Framework Core. I coded a simple website that works perfectly on my localhost. Now i want to publish it to Azure. The publish process itself is successful i can see a message below, but when the url opens in the browser it says the following: Then I tried Diagnose and solve problems on Azure here's what i got: Full report:

During the publish i configured some settings:

But still no luck. Previously i used the same approach with core 2.0 and angular 5 that worked fine. Now i'm having issues with core 2.1 and angular 6

Here's Startup.cs:

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Cookies;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.JwtBearer;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaServices.AngularCli;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens;
using MovieApp.Models;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

namespace MovieApp
{
public class Startup
{
    public Startup(IConfiguration configuration)
    {
        Configuration = configuration;
    }

    public IConfiguration Configuration { get; }

    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        services.AddCors(options =>
        {
            options.AddPolicy("EnableCORS", builder =>
            {
                builder.AllowAnyOrigin().AllowAnyHeader().AllowAnyMethod().AllowCredentials().Build();
            });
        });

        services.AddAuthentication(JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme).AddJwtBearer(options =>
        {
            options.TokenValidationParameters = new TokenValidationParameters
            {
                ValidateIssuer = true,
                ValidateAudience = true,
                ValidateLifetime = true,
                ValidateIssuerSigningKey = true,
                ValidIssuer = "http://localhost:63269",
                ValidAudience = "http://localhost:63269",
                // ValidIssuer = "https://nqmoviesng.azurewebsites.net",
                //  ValidAudience = "https://nqmoviesng.azurewebsites.net",
                IssuerSigningKey = new SymmetricSecurityKey(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("superSecretKey@345"))
            };
        });
        services.AddSingleton<IHttpContextAccessor, HttpContextAccessor>();

        services.AddMvc();


        services.AddSpaStaticFiles(configuration =>
        {
            configuration.RootPath = "ClientApp/dist";
        });
    }

    public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
    {
        app.UseAuthentication();
        app.UseCors("EnableCORS");

        if (env.IsDevelopment())
        {
            app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
        }
        else
        {
            app.UseExceptionHandler("/Home/Error");
        }

        app.UseDefaultFiles();
        app.UseStaticFiles();

        app.UseMvcWithDefaultRoute();

        app.UseSpaStaticFiles();


        app.UseMvc(routes =>
        {
            routes.MapRoute(
                name: "default",
                template: "{controller}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
        });

        app.UseSpa(spa =>
        {


            spa.Options.SourcePath = "ClientApp";

            if (env.IsDevelopment())
            {
                spa.UseAngularCliServer(npmScript: "start");
            }
        });
    }
 }
}

.csproj file:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">

<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.1</TargetFramework>
<TypeScriptCompileBlocked>true</TypeScriptCompileBlocked>
<TypeScriptToolsVersion>Latest</TypeScriptToolsVersion>
<IsPackable>false</IsPackable>
<SpaRoot>ClientApp\</SpaRoot>
<DefaultItemExcludes>$(DefaultItemExcludes);$(SpaRoot)node_modules\** 
</DefaultItemExcludes>

<!-- Set this to true if you enable server-side prerendering -->
<BuildServerSideRenderer>false</BuildServerSideRenderer>
</PropertyGroup>

<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.All" Version="2.1.1" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaServices.Extensions" Version="2.1.1" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer" Version="2.1.1" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools" Version="2.1.1" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Design" Version="2.1.1" />
<PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="11.0.2" />
</ItemGroup>

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I changed angular.json file. Replaced "outputPath": "dist/ClientApp", with "outputPath": "dist" and it worked!