How do we set ContentRootPath and WebRootPath? - asp.net-core

Question

We're ending up with the following ContentRoot and WebRoot when we run our app from IIS.
ContentRoot: C:\MyApp\wwwroot
WebRoot: C:\MyApp\wwwroot\wwwroot
Here is how we are setting ContentRoot and WebRoot.
public class Startup
{
private readonly IHostingEnvironment _hostingEnv;
public Startup(IHostingEnvironment hostingEnv)
{
_hostingEnv = hostingEnv;
}
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
app.Run(context =>
{
// test output
context.Response.WriteAsync(_hostingEnv.ContentRootPath + "\r\n");
return context.Response.WriteAsync(_hostingEnv.WebRootPath + "\r\n");
});
}
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
var contentRoot = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
var webRoot = Path.Combine(contentRoot, "wwwroot");
var host = new WebHostBuilder()
.UseKestrel()
.UseIISPlatformHandlerUrl()
.UseContentRoot(contentRoot) // set content root
.UseWebRoot(webRoot) // set web root
.UseStartup<Startup>()
.Build();
host.Run();
}
}
From intellisense I see that...
ContentRootPath contains the application content files.
WebRootPath contains the web-servable content files.
How do we make the test output look instead like this:
ContentRoot: C:\MyApp\
WebRoot: C:\MyApp\wwwroot\

Answer 1

While RC2 documentation is still being prepared, here is what I learned while trying to deploy pre-RC2 app as Azure Web App:
There is no Visual Studio tooling yet, so the app must be published and deployed manually over FTP. For publishing, use: dotnet publish --configuration Release --output ./approot
If connected to Azure over FTP, you will probably see something similar to:
The "approot" folder can be replaced with the published one (the web.config is left in the approot).
The "approot" must be configured as a virtual application in Azure Portal (the default was site\wwwroot):
An the last thing to get static files served from the wwwroot folder, the Startup.cs file should be modified to include custom UseWebRoot call:
var currentDirectory = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
var host = new WebHostBuilder()
.UseKestrel()
.UseWebRoot(Path.Combine(currentDirectory, "..", "wwwroot"))
.UseDefaultHostingConfiguration(args)
.UseIISIntegration()
.UseStartup<Startup>()
.Build();
After these steps you should have ASPNET Core pre-RC2 web app running on Azure.

Answer 2

In RC2, if we put the web.config beside wwwroot and point IIS at the MyApp directory like this...
MyApp
web.config
wwwroot
...the code from the original question outputs this...
ContentRoot: C:\MyApp\
WebRoot: C:\MyApp\wwwroot\