Published MVC App to Azure App Service but the default Azure App Service Page is still diplayed

Question

Hi all,

I am helping a friend publish is MVC C# web App to Azure App Service and after successfully publishing to Azure App Service using Visual Studio 2019 I still get the default App Service page. I have been trying everything for the past two days and can't figure out for the life of me what I am missing.

A few things to note is that since this is a MVC App there's no default page that I can add to the default document section in Azure App Service and removing hostingstart.html from the list results in "You do not have permission to view this directory or page"

Any help would be really appreciated.

Answer 1

did you deploy all ASP.Net MVC files to bin folder together with other assemblies? In Azure there is no GAC so all dlls should be deployed to bin. E.g. for MVC5 these files are needed:
Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure.dll
System.Web.Helpers.dll
System.Web.Mvc.dll
System.Web.Razor.dll
System.Web.WebPages.dll
System.Web.WebPages.Deployment.dll
System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll

Also check other steps in this article: Migrate your .NET web app or service to Azure App Service.

Answer 2

The simplest is to allow your MVC app to handle / via routing,

routes.MapRoute(
            "Default", // Route name
            "",        // URL with parameters
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index"}  // Parameter defaults
        );

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1142003/set-homepage-in-asp-net-mvc