ASP.NET Core is the latest web framework from Microsoft that supports development with C# and the .NET Framework. By using the .NET Core framework with ASP.NET Core, you can develop and publish your applications on non-Windows platforms like MacOS or Linux.
Before getting into the detail of how to set up such a website, let’s take a step back to go over the detail overview of the configuration. When a web application is created using the ASP .NET Core framework, it would inherently be served using Kestrel, the web server provided along with the framework. But if the hosting machine has already had a web server of its own or if it had been decided previously to use another web server -like our example- then we would need to turn that server into a proxy server.
Register the Microsoft Product key as trusted
To download install run this command in terminal.
wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/18.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
Install .Net Core runtime
In this step install .NET Core Runtime allows you to run apps that were made with .NET Core.
sudo apt-get update; \ sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https && \ sudo apt-get update && \ sudo apt-get install -y aspnetcore-runtime-3.1
Publishing Application
In this step, we are going to publish an application to the folder and copy that folder to VM.
We are going publish the application to the local folder we are going to choose Folder option.
After publishing, we need to copy files to Linux Virtual Machine for doing that we are going to use WinSCP tool.
Copying Application to Linux VM
In this step, we are going to copy that folder to Linux Virtual Machine for doing that we are going to use WinSCP.
URL to Download WinSCP: – https://winscp.net/eng/index.php
Install Apache
sudo apt install apache2
Next, we have installed Apache now we can check Apache web server status is it running.
sudo systemctl status apache2
To test in the browser, just access from Public IP. It will show you default Ubuntu 18.04 Apache web page.
Enable the required apache modules
sudo a2enmod rewrite sudo a2enmod proxy sudo a2enmod proxy_http sudo a2enmod headers sudo a2enmod ssl
After Enabling modules, Apache server needs to restart.
Restart Apache
sudo service apache2 restart
Creating folder in the www folder with name of application/website and copy all application files
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/myapp/publish/
Upload files to this new folder
Create a Virtual Host Configuration File
Apache Virtual Host configuration are located in /etc/apache2/sites-available
I am going to name Virtual Host Configuration file as myapp.conf many people give the domain name to the Configuration file for easy to recognize.
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/myapp.conf
Add below content to my-application.conf file
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass / http://localhost:5000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:5000/
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:UPGRADE} ^WebSocket$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:CONNECTION} Upgrade$ [NC]
RewriteRule /(.*) ws://127.0.0.1:5000/$1 [P]
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error-myapp.com.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access-myapp.com.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Disable the default site defined in 000-default.conf
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
Activate the myapp.conf
sudo a2ensite myapp.conf
Check Syntax of the Default Configuration file
sudo apachectl configtest
Restart Apache2 to make to take new changes
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Creating service
Creating a systemd Service file with name myappservicefile.service
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/myappservicefile.service
Paste the following contents into the service file.
WorkingDirectory= defines on which directory the service will be launched.
This my application publish folder /var/www/publishapplication/publish
ExecStart= allows you to specify any command that you’d like to run when this service is started.
/usr/bin/dotnet /var/www/publishapplication/publish/myapp.dll
[Unit] Description=Running ASP.NET Core on Ubuntu 18.04 Webserver APACHE [Service] WorkingDirectory=/var/www/myapp/publish ExecStart=/usr/bin/dotnet /var/www/myapp/publish/myapp.dll Restart=always # Restart service after 10 seconds if the dotnet service crashes: RestartSec=10 KillSignal=SIGINT SyslogIdentifier=dotnet-example User=www-data Environment=ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Production Environment=DOTNET_PRINT_TELEMETRY_MESSAGE=false [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Enable the service
sudo systemctl enable myappservicefile.service