无法在 IIS 默认网站内托管带有 angular 的 ASP .NET 核心 3.1

Question

I am not able to host ASP.NET core 3.1 with an angular template app inside the IIS default website. The hosting works and angular app lanches if it is hosted as a standalone website in IIS. I have used default InProcess web hosting. But the same hosting fails to load when added inside the default website. Below error shown in the browser console tab:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) runtime-es2015.c5fa8325f89fc516600b.js:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) polyfills-es2015.7cfdeea462673f342285.js:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) main-es2015.a7b9ab4b981098542774.js:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) styles.747581a485d8163d58ca.css:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

My web.config looks as below:

 <?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=".\XXXXX.dll" stdoutLogEnabled="false" 
      stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout" hostingModel="InProcess" />
    </system.webServer>
  </location>
</configuration>

Is there anything that is needed extra in case of hosting it inside the default website? This is strange as the same works if hosted independently. I am not sure why it is not able to find angular resources inside the default website. I also tried adding a URL rewrite inside web.config but to my surprise that also did not work.

To mention, .net core 3.1 runtime and the respective hosting bundle is installed on the machine.And app pool targets "no managed code".Nothing is getting logged via stdoutLogFile, so no clue what is happening.

Answer 1

For getting it to run as the default website, instead of having the files in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\TestWebApp put them in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ , so C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ClientApp\dist . This should fix the issue, the default website is looking for the files in wwwroot, not a subfolder.