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Hannington Mambo
Hannington Mambo

Reputation: 1090

How can I publish/upload ASP.NET MVC 5 Website

I have never published an ASP.NET MVC website to a hosted server. I have read and followed instructions and failed with publishing from Visual Studio directly to the hosted server. I used FTP publish method, provided required credentials, then published the website successfully. When I do this, I get the error when I try to access the website:

500 - Internal server error. There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.

I thus followed another instruction to publish to a local folder, using File System method, then uploaded the contents of that local folder using ftp to the hosted server. This gives me this error when I try to access the website:

Server Error
403 Forbidden
You do not have permission to access this document.

I would have loved the second method to work, but looking at the folder content, I can see some folders like App_Start missing, which I know is where start up pages are managed from, so I am not sure whether this is a proper procedure.

I would love some advice on how to publish this website. It would also be great to find a way that will allow updating changes, instead of publishing the entire website whenever changes are made.

I am using VS2019, and a .net hosting provider, not Azure.

Thank you!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 220

Answers (1)

B.S.
B.S.

Reputation: 678

In most case you can't see App_Start but all can working fine, you should find httpdocs it's the destination folder that you need to use to copy your files.

You can also try web deploy in your visual studio. To make it work correctly you need to get the setup file from your hosting provider, with this you don't need to update always all files by ftp, and if you are lucky (if you have Database rights) you can also auto-update your database.

Don't forget also to check your web.config if you use a database connection.

Please try this two methods then if you need more help I will edit.

Upvotes: 1

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