When I publish my .NET core app to a development IIS server, I make a call to the API and the method works fine locally. This method makes a Db call using a connection string stored in
appSettings.json as well as appSettings.Development.json
Observations:
- Yes, I have ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT = Development and I have both an appSettings.json file AND appSettings.Development.json file
- So I started looking at the published files and I had BOTH of these json files in the published folder, even though appSettings.Development.json properties is set to "Build Action" = content and Copy to Output Directory = Do Not Copy
- If I comment out the code that his the Db, and return dummy data, and republish the api, i get the results fine with no complaints about "development mode"
Error I get when calling the API trying to hit the Db
Error.
An error occurred while processing your request.
Request ID:
0HLL1GOCEHH73:00000001
Development Mode
Swapping to the
Development environment displays detailed information about the error that occurred.
The Development environment shouldn't be enabled for deployed applications.
It can result in displaying sensitive information from exceptions to end users.
For local debugging, enable the
Development environment by setting the
ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT environment variable to
Development
and restarting the app.
Questions:
- The Db connection strings are in both
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Brain-fart! The db connection strings were using 'trusted', so no wonder they worked locally! Once I put in the credentials, and re-published, things worked like I expected. However, the error message threw me off.
Im still not sure why I have both of those appSettings files published? Which one will it use?
I am assuming your appsetting files are named as following:
appSettings.json
appSettings.dev.json
typically, you have to explicitly set the environment to dev. if you use Visual Studio for development, it sets an environment variable that tells the application to put it in dev mode.
Without seeing the initializing logic, I would say in prod it will use the appSettings.json.
Take a look at this article, it explains configuration in more details.
Related
In my publish profile for staging (/Properties/PublishProfiles/xxx.pubxml) I have:
<EnvironmentName>Staging</EnvironmentName>
I have a file called appsettings.Staging.json.
When I deploy to the server the file stays as appsettings.Staging.json and doesn't get turned into appsettings.json, as I would expect.
Am I missing a step, shouldn't the transformation take place automatically.
The website doesn't work with appsettings.Staging.json file there.
In web.config on the server there is:
<environmentVariable name="ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT" value="Staging" />
which was added because of the line I added to the publish profile.
Ok, there is no issue here, I mis-understood how it works.
The website wasn't working because in my DAL (Data Access Library) class library it was looking for a file called appsettings.json so it could get the connection string for EF core, which didn't exist. I changed it to look for appsettings.{environment}.json by getting the ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT environment variable at runtime and it works now.
I am trying to publish as ASP.NET Core project with a hosting provider that supports ASP.NET Core. I am getting 500 Internal Server Error which I believe is very common. So I searched through the internet and various forums and then I checked the processPath="%LAUNCHER_PATH%" arguments="%LAUNCHER_ARGS%" in web.config and they look to be correctly converted with processPath="dotnet" and arguments=".\MyApplication.dll".
I also checked the connection string and it points to production DB server that's working. I confirmed the DB connection by changing the connection string to production DB and running project local. It works and I get the production DB access.
I also tried to get the error info by using the below in my Startup.cs (irrespective of env):
app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
app.UseDatabaseErrorPage();
app.UseBrowserLink();
I have also enabled stdoutLog in web.config, but I don't see that folder either:
stdoutLogEnabled="true" stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout"
I also tried to change applicationUrl and launchUrl in launchSettings.json to my prod Url, but that didn't work as well.
So, the 500 Internal Server Error refuses to go away, and I still don't have a useful error message. The page just says:
Oops.
500 Internal Server Error
An error occurred while starting the application.
I would really appreciate if someone could help me here.
I have also enabled stdoutLog in web.config as but I don't see that folder either:
stdoutLogEnabled="true" stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout"
There is one trick here - you must create both folders logs and stdout manually - then and only then IIS will create log file inside logs folder (not stdout as you could expect) - don't ask me why, because I don't know why ;)
Oops. 500 Internal Server Error An error occurred while starting the application.
Usually, means problems with a configuration in Startup.cs - the most common problems include an issue with DB itself, an issue with migrations (if you are using Code First approach), problems with appsettings.js, problems with Social Logins credentials (like missing SecretKey)...
Please refer to log file in .\logs\stdout - this is the quickest way to find details about the problem :)
app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
app.UseDatabaseErrorPage();
Those will work after your WebApp fully started, but not while starting the application.
in web.config file change modules="AspNetCoreModuleV2" to modules="AspNetCoreModule"
and watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clCR3k6kkD8
Thanks to Lukasz for his comments. I was able to see the log and it stated that "ClientId option must be provided". The problem was with the UserSecrets. Since secrets.json is only available in Development, there were no secrets found in Production. Once I had the secrets in my appSettings.json, it worked fine.
Moreover, To replicate this in Local environment, just go to Project properties and change the environment variable ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT to 'Production' and run in local. This will replicate the 500 Internal Server Error in local and you'll get the error message.
Also, ensure that the ASP.NET Core Windows Server Hosting bundle is installed. THis creates a reverse proxy between IIS and the Kestral server.
More Info:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/publishing/iis?tabs=aspnetcore2x#tabpanel_tfsY37MhAQ_aspnetcore2x
I would like to add some more info to #Lukasz Makowej answer.
I found out the reason why to have to create the folder, in microsoft documentation it is said that:
stdoutLogFile - Optional string attribute.
".....Any folders provided in the path must exist in order for the module to create the log file...."
So you have to create it yourself :)
Check it out here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/aspnet-core-module?view=aspnetcore-2.0
I also must said that in my case I had to validate that the web-site had the permissions to access to the "log" folder.
Make sure your web.config is good. I've been stomped more than once by a syntactically good web.config that referred to a module (Rewrite) that wasn't on the server. No error messages anywhere, other than the 500 response error.
Std log wasn't working for me, I had to uninstall all .ENT Core runtime / SDK versions from the server and my local to install the latest one and it worked after publishing everything again from scratch.
Another thing that helped was binding the IIS app to port 5000 without any dns so it actually showed me errors on http://localhost:5000
Encountered this issue yesterday, we also had no logging, no eventlog message whatsoever.
Then we checked the site's authentication settings via the IIS-manager to double-check the settings. And pop suddenly a popup with an error message 'Error on line XXXX'.
Turned out the configuration section was locked in the website's config at server-level.
So try unlocking the relevant IIS configuration settings at server level, as follows:
Open IIS Manager
Select the server in the Connections pane
Open Configuration Editor in the main pane
In the Sections drop down, select the section to unlock, e.g. system.webServer => security => authentication
Click Unlock Attribute in the right pane
Repeat for any other settings which you need to unlock
Restart IIS (optional) - Select the server in the Connections pane, click Restart in the Actions pane
I'm doing an ASPNet MVC integration with dynamics AX using web services.
We have 3 environments:
DEV
QA (Quality environment)
PROD
We've been developing it for a while on DEV and the services always worked.
Now we are passing it to the Quality Environment (QA, before PROD) and I changed the config to go to QA instead of DEV and we discovered a problem.
There are 2 services that send ~90% of their properties as NULL, the other 10% is ok.
We tried:
- Created console that saves the XML being received from AX.
- Reviewing web config
- Re-adding web services
We discovered that if we just add the service to the project using the QA URL, it works, but if we add it using DEV URL and afterwards change the config to match the QA URL it doesn't work.
So, it's not about the code, but something on the DEV > QA merge of AX, right?
Any ideas?
Fix
I found a fix for this.
I discovered that if the column order is different from server to server (WCF Server) this kind of things will happen.
I fixed it by downloading the WSDL and updating the reference from within Visual Studio.
Downloaded WSDL (Url: http://?singleWsdl)
Saved it to a folder in my pc
Configure the URL in VS (Changed it to the file in my pc instead of the URL)
Update service
It's a bit boring because you have to change this every time you want to compile it for a different environment, but until I find a permanent solution it will work this way.
I have 1 c# Console Application project, which has Program.cs (that contains main method), the main method simple calls a web service method and displays the string on the console.
The service reference is added in the project by right clicking it and adding service reference it to it.
when the console application is executed in debug mode from visual studio, it works as expected.
when the console application is executed from a .exe found in /bin/debug, it works as expected.
so far so good.
PROBLEM:
when the project is copied over to the system (you can call it a production environment), where this .exe will actually be executed, it fails at the exact line where i create the service proxy object. the line in Program.cs is:
ProjectName.ServiceReference.ServiceClient service = new ProjectName.ServiceReference.ServiceClient();
I know it fails here, because i have Console.Writeline("some line"); before and after the above line. I can see the Console.Writeline that is before the proxy line, and soon after that it crashes ...
I think this is because the reference paths that are referencing the service, is there any thing i can do to change the paths, or confirm that it is the path issue as suspected ...??
any idea whats going wrong ..???
Check this link: http://blog.davidsandor.com/post/Workaround-The-configuration-for-the-servicee280a6Unrecognized-element-e28098extendedProtectionPolicye28099.aspx
The configuration for the service reference could not be updated due
to the following issue: Unrecognized element
‘extendedProtectionPolicy’. (App.config / Web.config)
There does not seem to be a really clear reason why this is happening
however it seems to be related to Windows 7. I am not sure if the
.NET framework that ships with Win7 has some different setting or
template for the WCF configuration policy files but it seems to be the
culprit. Maybe the machine.config files are different on Win 7 and
the WCF configuration tools use the machine.config as some sort of
policy template.
The fix is annoying (because every time you build your solution on
Windows 7 and then rebuild on Vista you have to redo this).
Remove the line:
<extendedProtectionPolicy policyEnforcement="Never" />
from both your App/Web.config file on the client and on the WCF
server’s Web.config file.
I have create a WCF Service Web Role project.I can consume the service locally. But I am having issues trying to deploy the service on the azure cloud. After starting the webrole it justs kepps going in a loop where it init then stops. I have not made any changes to the default WebRoleclass that was added automatically. Can anybody point me to some samples or examples of WCF being deployed to azure
The behaviour you're seeing occurs when the instance errors in the OnStart or Run. The usual diagnostics error trapping hasn't had a chance to start yet so this is a difficult problem to debug. You might try adding error trapping inside this functions that writes the error details out to either a blob or a queue so that you can see what is actually happening.
Having said that, with code that works in the dev fabric, but continues to cycle when deployed to live, the first thing to check is that all of the references have the appropriate "Copy Local" property set. Anything that is part of the framework or Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime will need to have Copy Local to false, everything else should be set to true (third party assemblies an the like). If this is a web role and you're using MVC, you'll need to check that System.Web.Mvc has Copy Local set to true as well as this is not included as part of the standard framework deployed in Azure.
Have you looked at the Known Issues information on the WCF Azure code page? There's a patch that's needed, as well as a tweak to the service behavior. Hopefully this will help you.
I just found out the root of the problem. It was caused by one of my projects having the target platform set to x86. Seems like it does not support x86 build assemblies which can be a problem