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Deployment status shows deployment successful, but last deployed displays nothing in Azure CLI

My application has a .NET Core 7 backend and it uses a SQL database. I'm trying to deploy it onto an Azure App service (Windows platform) using the Azure CLI, but I have not had any luck so far.

I'm running across a strange problem. When I run the deploy command, the status is 4, and the message is successfully deployed. I checked the logs, and it says the deployment was successful, but the last deployment shows nothing, as can be seen in the screenshot below:

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I have exhausted all my resources and can't figure out what's the problem. Here are all the operations that I'm performing along with the commands that I'm executing:

az group create --name QandAResourcesterminal --location EastUS
az appservice plan create --name qanda2021-backend-terminal --resource-group QandAResourcesterminal --sku S1 --location eastus --subscription Education
az sql server create --name qanda-server-terminal --resource-group QandAResourcesterminal --location eastus --admin-user qanda --admin-password Education@123
az sql db create --resource-group QandAResourcesterminal --server qanda-server-terminal --name qanda-db-terminal --service-objective S0
az sql server firewall-rule create --name AllowTraffic --server qanda-server-terminal --resource-group QandAResourcesterminal  --start-ip-address 0.0.0.0 --end-ip-address 0.0.0.0

Then I got the connection string from Azure database, replaced {your_password} with Education@123 in the connection string, and added it to application. i.e., backend/appsettings.json file.

Then I executed the following commands:

az webapp create --name QandA2021-WebDeploy-terminal --resource-group QandAResourcesterminal --plan QandA2021-backend-terminal 
zip -r backend.zip backend/*
az webapp config connection-string set --name QandA2021-WebDeploy-terminal --resource-group QandAResourcesterminal --settings DefaultConnection="Server={my connection string}" --connection-string-type SQLServer
az webapp deployment source config-zip  --src  backend.zip --name QandA2021-WebDeploy-terminal --resource-group QandAResourcesterminal

The deployment is successful as can be seen from this screenshot:

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Then I navigate to Azure app service, click on default domain and I expect my webpage to open but I get the following page:

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When I navigate to my_domain/api/question, I expect a page containing the question details, but I get the following error:

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From all the reading that I've done, I understand that it has something to do with my web.config file but it's right there:

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Here's my web.config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
    <system.webServer>
      <handlers>
        <add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModuleV2" resourceType="Unspecified" />
      </handlers>
      <aspNetCore processPath="dotnet" arguments=".\QandA.dll" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout" hostingModel="inprocess" />
    </system.webServer>
  </location>
</configuration>

I've tried checking the file structure through Azure portal console, and here's my file structure:

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The web.config file is located in the wwwroot/backend/publish/ directory. Can someone help? Because I can't seem to understand what's really wrong.

Solution

  • The root cause of this issue is that the contents of the publish folder should be placed in the C:\home\site\wwwroot folder of the azure app service.

    You have two ways to fix the issue, one is modifying the azure-cli command and put the publish files under wwwroot.

    The second way is you can change the Physical Path. Under this path, we should find QandA.dll and web.config files.

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