Publish ASP.NET Core 2.0 Application on IIS

public class Program
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        BuildWebHost(args).Run();
    }
    public static IWebHost BuildWebHost(string[] args) =>
        WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
               .UseStartup<Startup>()
               .Build();
}

First Application In ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0

Let’s move to Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 which provides .Net Core 2 features. Open the Asp.Net Core 2.0 application which we have created in the last article. Open the solution explorer and right click on the project and choose the Publish option for publishing this web application.

It will open a new window as follows, which provides us with three different options to publish our web application and these options are “Azure”, “IIS, FTP” and “Folder”. So, here are choosing “Folder” to publish our web content”. You have to provide the destination path where you would like to publish the web application and then click “Publish”.

It will start publishing content on the selected folder as the following image shows. Once everything is fine, it will show the Publish Successes message.

Now it’s time to create a new website inside the IIS Manager, to open IIS Manager, just type “inetmgr” in “Search Program and files” in the start menu. It will open IIS Manager for you as the following image shows where you can manage your application.

Just right-click on “Sites” and choose “Add Web Site..”.

In the next window, you have to define your “Site Name”, the physical path where you published your application earlier, and the hostname to find on the web browser as in below image. Don’t change Port or anything else and just click OK.

Now we are almost done but need to change the “Application Pools” for this site. Click on application pools from the left panel choose your pools as “asp.netcore2.com” and double-click on that. Now you can edit your “Application Pool” for this website. From this window, you have to change “.Net Framework version” or “.Net CLR version” with “No Managed Code” and OK.

The last thing, you need to do, is just make one entry about your application inside the host file, which is located in the following location. You have to add one more entry as we have done for asp.netcore2.com which directly points to a localhost IP address.

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

The time has come to run the application on the browser, so open any browser and just type asp.netcore2.com and press enter. Wow… you will get the following screen, which means the application has successfully hosted on IIS.

Conclusion

So, today we have learned how to host your Asp.Net Core 2.0 application on IIS.

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