Why Visual Studio 2015 changes web.config after web deploy?

Question

When I do local publishing in Visual Studio 2015. It publishes web.config which contains:

  <httpPlatform processPath="..\approot\web.cmd"/>

and the website works. But when i do web deploy, it publishes web.config which contains:

 <httpPlatform processPath="%home%\site\approot\web.cmd" />

, website could not find web.cmd and doesnt work. How can i publish the project with string "..\\approot\\web.cmd" without %home% in web.config over web deploy?

Answer 1

Some helpful information you can fid here

When Visual Studio deploys an ASP.NET Core app to Azure App Service, it sets an environment variable called DNU_PUBLISH_AZURE to 1 before calling dnu publish. This tells dnu publish to fill in the correct values, which are:

<httpPlatform processPath="%home%\site\approot\web.cmd" arguments="" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile="\\?\%home%\LogFiles\stdout.log" startupTimeLimit="3600"></httpPlatform>

Seting values 0 or false to variable DNU_PUBLISH_AZURE turns back normal path.

Azure environment turns on in pubxml in publish profiles in string:

<_DestinationType>AzureWebSite</_DestinationType>

In my case i should to remove this string.