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How to customize the startup command for Azure app service?

I am using Azure app service to deploy a .NET 6.0 website, running in a Windows-based environment. It seems like they use MSBuild as a default startup command. I am just wondering how to customize the startup command via the Azure web console or any config file. Since I couldn't find the "Startup command" field under "Configurations" > "General Settings", the field mentioned in this post is missing. enter image description here

Solution

  • I couldn't find the "Startup command" field under "Configurations" > "General Settings"

    The option to add the Startup command in General Settings is available only for the Azure App Services deployed in Linux Environment.

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    • You can see the MSDoc's 1 and 2 explains the way to add a startup for only Linux Apps.

    customize the startup command to dotnet build & dotnet publish

    • As I have mentioned in the comments, the app deployed in Windows App service contains the web.config file with default settings (processPath=dotnet).
    <aspNetCore processPath="dotnet" arguments=".\Startup28Feb.dll" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile="\\?\%home%\LogFiles\stdout" hostingModel="inprocess" />
    • Even the MSDoc, says the same.

    The generated web.config is tailored to the detected start script

    • Make sure the app is deployed properly and contains all the files in the KUDU Console.

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    AFAIK,the .NET Core App deployed in Windows Environment does not require any startup command to set manually to run the Application.