If you want to use ASP.NET 2.x or 3.x you need to change it a bit. The watch tool is a global tool now and you don’t need to add it as a reference any longer The syntax is slightly different “Watch”: { “executablePath”: “dotnet.exe”, “workingDirectory”: “$(ProjectDir)”, “commandLineArgs”: “watch run”, “launchBrowser”: true, “launchUrl”: “http://localhost:5000/”, “environmentVariables”: … Read more
For now, there is a simple way to see what the actual error is. Open Console section from the App service, then try to run the dotnet app. From there we may get the full error message and trace info:
In the Startup.cs, remove the middleware app.UseHttpsRedirection();
This solution works on IIS 10+ version and allows to remove x-powered-by and server headers in server response. In IIS 10 a new attribute was added: removeServerHeader. We need to create web.config file in asp.net core application with following content: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <configuration> <system.webServer> <security> <requestFiltering removeServerHeader=”true” /> </security> <httpProtocol> <customHeaders> <remove name=”X-Powered-By” /> … Read more
Updated for ASP.Net Core 2.0. As pointed by poke, the server has been split between hosting and transport, where libuv belongs to the transport layer. The libuv ThreadCount has been moved to its own LibuvTransportOptions and they are set separately in your web host builder with the UseLibuv() ext method: If you check the LibuvTransportOptions … Read more
I’d like to offer an alternative answer, with some history, so that you might understand why Kestrel comes, even if you only use Windows and IIS. At the very beginning of ASP.NET development before year 2000, clearly Microsoft created two pieces to host ASP.NET WebForms apps, Cassini, later became ASP.NET Development Server in Visual Studio. … Read more
The default configuration file used by Kestrel server is hosting.json. The name was changed multiple times in different beta versions. If you use now project.json with the following “command” section “commands”: { “web”: “Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel” } then during starting the server from the command line by dnx web the file hosting.json will be read. The file … Read more