ASP.NET Core 2.2 Site Warmup - azure

I've migrated a .NET Framework 4.6 WebApi to .NETCore 2.2 and am having trouble getting the IIS ApplicationInitialization module to call my endpoints on a startup/slot swap/scale out.
I added a Web.Config like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModuleV2" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<aspNetCore processPath="dotnet" arguments=".\FR911.Api.Core.dll" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile="\\?\%home%\LogFiles\stdout" hostingModel="inprocess" />
<applicationInitialization doAppInitAfterRestart="true">
<add initializationPage="api/Warmup>
<add initializationPage="/" />
</applicationInitialization>
</system.webServer>
</location>
</configuration>
But if I keep the default hosting model of "inprocess" my warmup never gets called. If I change to "outofprocess" hosting, my warmup does get called before the swap is completed.
I think the issue below is likely related:
https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/issues/8057
I'm not looking to just manually ping or otherwise hit my endpoint because I want the existing feature in the module that IIS is Azure won't actually swap the endpoints until the warmup requests have finished (thus initing EFCore etc.)
Has anyone had any luck getting this to work with the inprocess hosting model?

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Hosting a net6.0 web api in Azure App Service

I have created a demo Web Api in net6 using the Visual Studio 2022 template for that. The Web Api runs fine on my machine but when trying to host it in an Azure App Service it fails with the following error:
After some research I managed to have it working on Azure by changing the module "AspNetCoreModuleV2" to "AspNetCoreModule" in the web.config.
Here it is the web.config that gets deployed to Azure and it doesn't work:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModuleV2" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<aspNetCore processPath="dotnet" arguments=".\Web6Test.dll" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout" hostingModel="inprocess" />
</system.webServer>
</location>
</configuration>
Is it possible to host the web api in Azure using the "AspNetCoreModuleV2" module?
There can be multiple reasons causing HTTP 500.30 error: ASP .Net core app failed to start like App Initialization, App Configuration and Key vault permission issues.
Thanks to 130nk3r5, I figured out how to find the root cause of the error:
Go to Azure Portal
Select App Services
Search and click on your App service
Go to development tools and open console.
Run the application through this console and then the real error that is causing the application not to load will be displayed.
You can refer to this SO thread for multiple solutions.
Hosting the web api can also be achieved by using AspNetCoreModuleV2 in the web.config.
I have reproduced the same by creating a .Net 6.0 Core web API project in Visual Studio.
Web.config:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModuleV2" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<aspNetCore processPath="dotnet" arguments=".\XXXXXX.dll" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile="\\?\%home%\LogFiles\stdout" hostingModel="inprocess" />
</system.webServer>
</location>
</configuration>
<!--ProjectGuid: 09e5e23c-101e-41d1-bd27-60c6f5c08db0-->
Output when running the project locally:
Deployed the application to Azure App Service:
Output after hosting the application in Azure App Service:
Result:

blazor server app 404 on publish at / on IIS

I have a blazor app that is running fine on localhost.
Here's the steps I have taken to put my project live.
Setup new Windows Server on AWS.
Enabled IIS.
Installed ASP.NET Core Runtime Hosting Bundle.
Installed the URL Rewrite module.
Setup a SSL cert and DNS settings to point to IP.
Configured bindings to port 443 and picked the cert added path wwwroot/projectname
published my project using web deploy.
However, when navigating to my url I'm seeing 404 resource not found.
Only thing that is different is that the server added a web config to get it to run in IIS which looks like this.
<configuration>
<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModule" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<aspNetCore processPath="dotnet" arguments=".\App.dll" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout" hostingModel="inprocess" />
</system.webServer>
</location>
</configuration>
<!--ProjectGuid: 8b081fc5-0f9d-4426-b9cf-90f4d30b5527-->
Anyone point me in the right direction as to what I should be looking out for or steps I may have missed as this is the first time I've attempted publishing a Blazor-Server application.
On my IIS, I have "AspNetCoreModuleV2" not "AspNetCoreModule" like this:
<configuration>
<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModuleV2" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<aspNetCore processPath="dotnet" arguments=".\App.dll" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout" hostingModel="inprocess" />
</system.webServer>
</location>
</configuration>
<!--ProjectGuid: 8b081fc5-0f9d-4426-b9cf-90f4d30b5527-->
See: Hosting A Blazor Visual Studio Project Directly In IIS

HTTP Error 502.5 running ASP.NET Core 2.0 app from IIS

I'm getting an HTTP 502.5 error when trying to run my ASP.NET core 2.0 web app from IIS.
I've installed the .NET Core Windows Server Hosting Bundle and checked all my IIS settings as per this document https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/iis/index?tabs=aspnetcore2x
The web.config looks like this.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModule" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<aspNetCore processPath="dotnet" arguments=".\OscarWeb.dll" stdoutLogEnabled="true" stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout" />
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
The Windows event log produces the following errors.
It is IIS v6.2 running on Windows Server 2012 R2. The web application was built using ASP.NET Core 2.0.
When I run dotnet from the commandline as follows there are no errors:
dotnet oscarweb.dll
The first thing you have to do in this scenario is to create the logs folder if it is missing and check the stdout logs generated.
It can be several different things but from personal experience the most common issue i had was IIS not having enough permissions to run it. In IIS you can configure the Identity used in Advanced Settings. If it is using ApplicationPoolIdentity then change it to LocalSystem and see if it works. The logs in the stdtout file however will give you the answer.
The solution to this problem (in my case at least) was to reboot the web server. After installing the .NET Core Windows Server Hosting Bundle you need to reboot the server for them to be registered correctly.
Thanks to Chris Pratt (first comment underneath my question) for suggesting the answer :)
Not sure if your webconfig is complete. I believe aspnetcore tag needs to have the ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT environment variable set as well.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModule" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<aspNetCore processPath="dotnet" arguments=".\OscarWeb.dll" stdoutLogEnabled="true" stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout" >
<environmentVariables>
<environmentVariable name="ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT" value="YourRuntimeEnv" />
</environmentVariables>
</aspNetCore>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

Azure multiple sites in virtual directories

I have 3 asp.net core sites I need to deploy on the same domain (subdomains will not work with my SSL certificate).
https://my-site.com (Single page app)
https://my-site.com/api (Web api)
https://my-site.com/identity (Identity server)
When I deploy the api and identity projects, they work fine. However, when deploying the single page app, api and identity stop working.
The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred.
The error appears instantly so it's probably failing early on from startup I guess.
The single page app is working ok.
It seems the spa is interfering, I tried solutions from here to ignore the routes, but I get the same error.
I have tried the solution here to get a more descriptive error but to no avail.
Not sure where to go from here
The cause of the problem is that both the root application and the child app add the aspNetCore handler, causing the config system to blow up. You can see this by turning on Detailed error messages in the Azure Portal, and then finding the error page under D:\home\LogFiles\DetailedErrors. You'll see this error:
Cannot add duplicate collection entry of type 'add' with unique key attribute 'name' set to 'aspNetCore'
There are two approaches to solving this.
The first is to use a location tag to prevent inheritance. Specifically, change your root app's web.config from something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModule" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<aspNetCore processPath="dotnet" arguments=".\myapp.dll" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile="\\?\%home%\LogFiles\stdout" />
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
to something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModule" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<aspNetCore processPath="dotnet" arguments=".\myapp.dll" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile="\\?\%home%\LogFiles\stdout" />
</system.webServer>
</location>
</configuration>
The second approach is to remove the <handlers> section from the sub-application to avoid the duplication (as suggested in the doc under Configuration of sub-applications):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<aspNetCore processPath="dotnet" arguments=".\mySubApp.dll" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile="\\?\%home%\LogFiles\stdout" />
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

Run go web application on IIS

Is there a way to run Go web application on IIS?
I found a setting for azure but its not working on my dev machine
this is a web config for azure :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="httpplatformhandler" path="*" verb="*" modules="httpPlatformHandler" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<httpPlatform processPath="d:\home\site\wwwroot\go\bin\go.exe"
arguments="run d:\home\site\wwwroot\server.go"
startupTimeLimit="60">
<environmentVariables>
<environmentVariable name="GOROOT" value="d:\home\site\wwwroot\go" />
</environmentVariables>
</httpPlatform>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
Your local IIS does not work simply because you need to install a separate component, called HttpPlatformHandler module,
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-release-of-the-httpplatformhandler-module-for-iis-8/
http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/httpplatformhandler
Reverse proxy or FastCGI were the older approaches which are no longer necessary with this new approach.
HttpPlatformHandler module doesn't work for me. I found this post by Sutean Rutjanalard on Medium very helpful, which use ASP.NET Core Module instead.
Basically, you need to create Application pool with "No Managed Code" as you do with a .net core app. And the following is the web.config.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModule" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<aspNetCore processPath=".\YourGoApp.exe" />
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

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