Using webapps-deploy to deploy into a specifc folder (not just into wwwroot) - azure-web-app-service

Question

Is it possible to use the webapps-deploy action to deploy into a specific path of the web app (and not just into wwroot)? For example deploying into a IIS virtual directory under wwwroot/app.
Current yaml GitHub action configuration, can't find a property here for setting a requested path on the web server.
- name: "Run Azure webapp deploy action using publish profile credentials"
uses: azure/webapps-deploy#v2
with:
app-name: MyApp
publish-profile: ${{ secrets.SECRET_PROFILE }}
package: build
Image showing the Virtual Application (wwwroot/app) I'd like to deploy into

Answer 1

With many times testing, I found it's not possible using Git Action. But you can consider using Visual Studio, importing publish profile.
First, set the virtual path in portal.
Downloads the publish profile. You will use the content of publish profile.
Modify the profile. Change msdeploySite's value from Your-Site to Your-Site\folder\subfolder, such as msdeploySite="dorissub\app". Change destinationAppUrl's value from http://xxx.azurewebsites.net to http://xxx.azurewebsites.net/app
Publish from VS.
Check the sub folder. it works.
Here is how I do using Git Action.
Add secret. Go to your GitHub repository settings and add a secret with the content of publish profile as the value, name it as AZURE_WEBAPP_PUBLISH_PROFILE.
Run workflow with this yaml file:
name: .NET Core dorisxxx
on: [push]
env:
AZURE_WEBAPP_NAME: dorisxxx # set this to your application's name
AZURE_WEBAPP_PACKAGE_PATH: '.' # set this to the path to your web app project, defaults to the repository root
DOTNET_VERSION: '3.1.x' # set this to the dot net version to use
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
# Checkout the repo
- uses: actions/checkout#master
# Setup .NET Core SDK
- name: Setup .NET Core
uses: actions/setup-dotnet#v1
with:
dotnet-version: ${{ env.DOTNET_VERSION }}
# Run dotnet build and publish
- name: dotnet build and publish
run: |
dotnet restore
dotnet build --configuration Release
dotnet publish -c Release -o '${{ env.AZURE_WEBAPP_PACKAGE_PATH }}/myapp'
# Deploy to Azure Web apps
- name: 'Run Azure webapp deploy action using publish profile credentials'
uses: azure/webapps-deploy#v2
with:
app-name: ${{ env.AZURE_WEBAPP_NAME }} # Replace with your app name
publish-profile: ${{ secrets.AZURE_WEBAPP_PUBLISH_PROFILE }} # Define secret variable in repository settings as per action documentation
package: '${{ env.AZURE_WEBAPP_PACKAGE_PATH }}/myapp'
But the project still published to wwwroot...
Maybe you should choose another way to deploy.