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Weeedooo
Weeedooo

Reputation: 467

The specified task executable location is invalid while running GitLab CI Job

I'm trying to set up CICD for my .NET Core application with GitLab CI.

Let's start with my .gitlab-ci.yml

image : microsoft/dotnet:latest
before_script:
  - 'cd Backend'
  - 'dotnet restore'
build:
 stage: build
 script:
  - 'dotnet build -c Release /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=Properties/PublishProfiles/WebioProfile.pubxml'
 only:
   - cicd_test

And WebioProfile I'm using

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <WebPublishMethod>MSDeploy</WebPublishMethod>
    <LastUsedBuildConfiguration>Release</LastUsedBuildConfiguration>
    <LastUsedPlatform>Any CPU</LastUsedPlatform>
    <SiteUrlToLaunchAfterPublish>http://xxx.hostingasp.pl/</SiteUrlToLaunchAfterPublish>
    <ExcludeApp_Data>False</ExcludeApp_Data>
    <ProjectGuid>03120c29-ae98-4c30-9b8c-7ec70f6642fd</ProjectGuid>
    <MSDeployServiceURL>ssl3.xxxx.hostingasp.pl</MSDeployServiceURL>
    <DeployIisAppPath>xxxx.hostingasp.pl</DeployIisAppPath>
    <RemoteSitePhysicalPath />
    <SkipExtraFilesOnServer>True</SkipExtraFilesOnServer>
    <MSDeployPublishMethod>WMSVC</MSDeployPublishMethod>
    <EnableMSDeployBackup>True</EnableMSDeployBackup>
    <UserName>user</UserName>
    <Password>password</Password>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

After git push origin cicd_test

I got this error GitLab Job console

Restore completed in 58.11 ms for /builds/username/project/Backend/Backend.csproj.
Backend -> /builds/username/project/Backend/bin/Release/netcoreapp2.1/Backend.dll Backend -> /builds/username/project/Backend/obj/Release/netcoreapp2.1/PubTmp/Out/ /usr/share/dotnet/sdk/2.2.203/Sdks/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish/build/netstandard1.0/PublishTargets/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish.MSDeploy.targets(171,5): error MSB6004: The specified task executable location "%ProgramW6432%/IIS/Microsoft Web Deploy V3/msdeploy.exe" is invalid. [/builds/username/project/Backend/Backend.csproj]

Build FAILED.

From what I see, %ProgramW6432% is some kind of variable that isnt set? But where I can change it?

Worth to notice, deploying using same commands as in .gitlab-ci.yml works fine if I run it localy from VS CLI

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2064

Answers (1)

Ngineer101
Ngineer101

Reputation: 1

I got the same error when trying to publish to Azure app service from a Mac.

This issue helped me solve the problem: https://github.com/aspnet/websdk/issues/241

Instead of using the 'dotnet publish' command it can be done using msbuild:

msbuild project-name.csproj -c Release /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=publishprofile.pubxml

Upvotes: -2

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