can't deploy my web API

Question

User1642115476 posted

Hello,

I created a web API in Visual Studio and now I want to deploy it to our remote server. I'm trying to setup a publish profile but it's not able to connect. Here is a screen shot of the settings I'm using and the error I'm getting:

The error box that you see comes after I click Validate Connection and then Failed (click for details).

It says to make sure Web Deploy is installed and that Web Management Service is running, and they both are. I followed the link but it more or less tells me the same thing.

I also opened port 8172 (now disabled) as that apparently is the port for deploying web apps like my API. I tried tacking on :8172 to the end of the computer name but that had no effect.

Knowing the destination URL might help but I assume (since we don’t have a domain for the API) it would be the same as the remote connection string (ec2-54-159-229-158.compute-1.amazonaws.com), and it seems to be an optional field so I left it blank.

Does anything stand out as odd? Any suggestions? Thanks.

Answer 1

User1642115476 posted

UPDATE:

Because I'm trying to deploy onto a virtual machine, ports 8172 had to be opened on BOTH the physical machine and the virtual machine. Once I did this, I started getting this error message:

Any idea what this means?

Answer 2

User36583972 posted

Hi gib9898_00,

You should configure an Internet Information Services (IIS) web server to support web publishing. Please refer to the detailed tutorial below.

Configuring a Web Server for Web Deploy Publishing (Web Deploy Handler):

https://www.asp.net/web-forms/overview/deployment/configuring-server-environments-for-web-deployment/configuring-a-web-server-for-web-deploy-publishing-web-deploy-handler

You can also deploy the Web site directly on IIS.

Publishing to IIS:

https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/publishing/iis.html

Best Regards,

Yohann Lu

Answer 3

User1642115476 posted

I fixed the problem.

Because the API site is under Default Web Site, the site name had to be "Default Web Site/RiskAliveAPI".

Thanks for the feedback.