How To Publish And Deploy NET Core Website On IIS

Hello Readers, in this post I am going to discuss the publishing and deployment process of a .NET Core 1.0 website on IIS.

Getting the required files for hosting on IIS

1. First thing we need to make sure that we are including all required folders in our publish. If you have your application using the blank .NET Core template then go to project.json. You will see settings for publish options like below
   
   1. "publishOptions": {
   2. "include": [
   3. "wwwroot",
   4. "web.config"
   5. ]
   6. }

   Replace the above publish options with the following
   

   1. "publishOptions": {
   2. "include": [
   3. "wwwroot",
   4. "Views",
   5. "Areas/**/Views",
   6. "appsettings.json",
   7. "web.config"
   8. ]
   9. }

   Please note that you need to include the your .json files with correct name. So our necessary folders are now included for publishing.

2. Now the next step is to publish the website. Please follow the screenshots along with instructions

   

   1. Go to your application under src folder.
   2. Right click and select Publish option.
3. Now the publish box opens up.
   
   
   
   1. Select the custom option.
   2. Add profile name as localhost(you can give anything you like)
      
      
      
      
   3. After profile is added you will be given screen for selecting Publishing Method and location where published files should be placed.
      
      
      
   4. Click next and you will get to settings screen of publish window
      
      
      
      1. Make sure you select the configuration as Release
      2. Make sure to check the checkbox for Delete all existing files prior to publish(This will make sure that files in publish folder will just be for our application)
         
         
   5. Now click on Publish. VS will publish the required files in the selected folder and you will see the following message on output window of Visual Studio