ASP.NET 5 Beta 6 on Azure Websites

[BernhardGlueck]

Hi !

Are ASP.NET 5 Beta6 Applications supposed to work on Azure Websites ?
I have migrated my code to Beta6 and locally everything works fine.

Also when i run
dnu publish --no-source --out d:\SomeWhere --runtime dnx-clr-win-x64.1.0.0-beta6
I can run my app fine from d:\SomeWhere via web.cmd or kestrel.cmd..

The App also works in IIS Express

However when i publish to Azure Websites ( Clean publish via FTP )

I Get the following exception:

Cannot find package "xxx.Server.Web"

This is very strange since the package is actually there at the searched location on the server...

So my question is is this me doing something wrong ? Or is it a bug in Beta 6 ? Or does azure websites not support Beta6 (yet) ?

Here is the full exception:

Failed to resolve the following dependencies for target framework 'DNX,Version=v4.5.1':
xxx.Server.Web 1.0.0

Searched Locations:
D:\home\site\approot\packages\xxx.Server.Web\1.0.0{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\src/framework{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\src/server{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\test/framework{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\test/server{name}\project.json
D:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5.1{name}.dll
D:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5.1\Facades{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_32{name}{version}{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_64{name}{version}{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL{name}{version}{name}.dll

Try running 'dnu restore'.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: Failed to resolve the following dependencies for target framework 'DNX,Version=v4.5.1':
xxx.Server.Web 1.0.0

Searched Locations:
D:\home\site\approot\packages\xxx.Server.Web\1.0.0{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\src/framework{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\src/server{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\test/framework{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\test/server{name}\project.json
D:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5.1{name}.dll
D:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5.1\Facades{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_32{name}{version}{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_64{name}{version}{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL{name}{version}{name}.dll

Try running 'dnu restore'.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[InvalidOperationException: Failed to resolve the following dependencies for target framework 'DNX,Version=v4.5.1':
xxx.Server.Web 1.0.0

Searched Locations:
D:\home\site\approot\packages\xxx.Server.Web\1.0.0{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\src/framework{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\src/server{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\test/framework{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\test/server{name}\project.json
D:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5.1{name}.dll
D:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5.1\Facades{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_32{name}{version}{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_64{name}{version}{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL{name}{version}{name}.dll

Try running 'dnu restore'.
]

[TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.HostingInit(HostingEnvironmentFlags hostingFlags, PolicyLevel policyLevel, Exception appDomainCreationException) +361

[HttpException (0x80004005): Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.FirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +579
System.Web.HttpRuntime.EnsureFirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +120
System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestNotificationPrivate(IIS7WorkerRequest wr, HttpContext context) +712

[Eilon]

@kichalla can you help take a look?

[BernhardGlueck]

I should also note that the app was working fine with Beta4 ( we skipped the beta5 step )

I also tested it now locally on the full IIS and it seems to work fine there too. ( using the dnu publish version that we also uploaded to azure websites )

[kichalla]

I am unable to repro this issue (in my case i had to test with 32-bit dnx-clr though). Can you share how your web.config file content looks like?

[pekkah]

I have beta6 web site and some webjobs running just fine inside Azure. Only issue I had was with the AspNet.Loader being locked so had to delete files manually from site first and then deploy. I'm using VSO vNext build engine to build and deploy using msdeploy.

[BernhardGlueck]

Hm we did a clean deploy ( empty directories ) as we do on all deployments ...

web.config:

<configuration>
   <appSettings>
    <add key="bootstrapper-version" value="1.0.0-beta6" />
    <add key="runtime-path" value="..\approot\runtimes" />
    <add key="dnx-version" value="1.0.0-beta6" />
    <add key="dnx-clr" value="clr" />
    <add key="dnx-app-base" value="..\approot\packages\xxx.Server.Web\1.0.0\root" />
  </appSettings>
  <system.web>
    <httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5.1" />
  </system.web>
</configuration>

[kichalla]

The web.config file looks fine to me (although not sure how we figure out the bitness of the clr...as you used the 64 bit runtime clr when deploying)...at this point I am out of ideas...is it possible to share a simple repro project?

[Eilon]

Is your Azure web site set up to the same bitness as your app?

[BernhardGlueck]

The azure websites is also 64 bit of course (we had that error once, and that leads fo a completly different exception btw. )
The server has been running with 64 bit dnx-1.0.0-beta4 clr/x64 for months..

I am not sure how to write a small repro case for this, since i don't know whats causing this ( and the appication is quite large )

What I could do is give some measure of access to our environment/application though.

[pekkah]

Have you checked if the missing package files actually exist on server approot/packages directory? What happens if you omit the no-source argument?

[BernhardGlueck]

That its just a build error and the package missing was my initial avenue of debugging. But its there at the exact path dnx is searching for it.

Will try now with no-source omitted.

[pekkah]

One more simple thing to try if you didn't already. Restart the Azure Web app.

[BernhardGlueck]

We restarted serveral times.. :-)

The whole deployment process is automated ( did it myself )

First it stops the azure webapp
Then it deletes the site folder ( via FTP )
Upload the new files
Restarts the azure webapp ..

We did that before because we had frequent issues with locked files otherwise and could not update cleanly.

[BernhardGlueck]

Ok now it gets really weird, i tried yoru suggestions to drop no-source and we have a different error now. It seems now it can locate ( obviously by rebuilding it ) our own packages in the src directory ( clear since now its a source build ) but does not find ANY of the third party packages be it from MS or anyone else. Whats even more fun is that the packages folder is not included in the search locations anymore ....

The command line to generate the files was:
dnu publish --out $deploymentPath --runtime dnx-clr-win-x64.1.0.0-beta6

Here is the full error:

Failed to resolve the following dependencies for target framework 'DNX,Version=v4.5.1':
Autofac 3.5.2
Castle.Core 3.3.3
Jint 2.5.0
Jurassic 2.2.0
Kestrel 1.0.0-beta6
Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU 7.0.0.17
MarkdownSharp 1.13.0
MaxMind.GeoIP2 2.3.1
Metrics.NET 0.2.16.0
Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNet 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Authentication 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Authentication.OAuthBearer 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Cors 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Diagnostics 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.FileProviders.Physical 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Hosting 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Http 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Http.Extensions 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc 6.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Server.IIS 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Server.WebListener 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.StaticFiles 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client 5.2.3
Microsoft.Framework.DependencyInjection 1.0.0-beta6
NEST 1.7.0
Newtonsoft.Json 7.0.1
Polly 2.2.2
RavenDB.Client 3.0.3690
Rx-Main 2.2.5
Serilog 1.5.9
Serilog.Sinks.ElasticSearch 2.0.52
SharpZipLib 0.86.0
StackExchange.Redis 1.0.481
WindowsAzure.Storage 5.0.0

Searched Locations:
D:\home\site\approot\src{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\src/framework{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\src/server{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\test/framework{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\test/server{name}\project.json
D:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5.1{name}.dll
D:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5.1\Facades{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_32{name}{version}{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_64{name}{version}{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL{name}{version}{name}.dll

Try running 'dnu restore'.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: Failed to resolve the following dependencies for target framework 'DNX,Version=v4.5.1':
Autofac 3.5.2
Castle.Core 3.3.3
Jint 2.5.0
Jurassic 2.2.0
Kestrel 1.0.0-beta6
Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU 7.0.0.17
MarkdownSharp 1.13.0
MaxMind.GeoIP2 2.3.1
Metrics.NET 0.2.16.0
Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNet 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Authentication 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Authentication.OAuthBearer 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Cors 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Diagnostics 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.FileProviders.Physical 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Hosting 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Http 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Http.Extensions 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc 6.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Server.IIS 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Server.WebListener 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.StaticFiles 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client 5.2.3
Microsoft.Framework.DependencyInjection 1.0.0-beta6
NEST 1.7.0
Newtonsoft.Json 7.0.1
Polly 2.2.2
RavenDB.Client 3.0.3690
Rx-Main 2.2.5
Serilog 1.5.9
Serilog.Sinks.ElasticSearch 2.0.52
SharpZipLib 0.86.0
StackExchange.Redis 1.0.481
WindowsAzure.Storage 5.0.0

Searched Locations:
D:\home\site\approot\src{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\src/framework{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\src/server{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\test/framework{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\test/server{name}\project.json
D:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5.1{name}.dll
D:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5.1\Facades{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_32{name}{version}{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_64{name}{version}{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL{name}{version}{name}.dll

Try running 'dnu restore'.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[InvalidOperationException: Failed to resolve the following dependencies for target framework 'DNX,Version=v4.5.1':
Autofac 3.5.2
Castle.Core 3.3.3
Jint 2.5.0
Jurassic 2.2.0
Kestrel 1.0.0-beta6
Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU 7.0.0.17
MarkdownSharp 1.13.0
MaxMind.GeoIP2 2.3.1
Metrics.NET 0.2.16.0
Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNet 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Authentication 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Authentication.OAuthBearer 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Cors 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Diagnostics 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.FileProviders.Physical 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Hosting 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Http 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Http.Extensions 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc 6.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Server.IIS 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.Server.WebListener 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.StaticFiles 1.0.0-beta6
Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client 5.2.3
Microsoft.Framework.DependencyInjection 1.0.0-beta6
NEST 1.7.0
Newtonsoft.Json 7.0.1
Polly 2.2.2
RavenDB.Client 3.0.3690
Rx-Main 2.2.5
Serilog 1.5.9
Serilog.Sinks.ElasticSearch 2.0.52
SharpZipLib 0.86.0
StackExchange.Redis 1.0.481
WindowsAzure.Storage 5.0.0

Searched Locations:
D:\home\site\approot\src{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\src/framework{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\src/server{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\test/framework{name}\project.json
D:\home\site\approot\test/server{name}\project.json
D:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5.1{name}.dll
D:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5.1\Facades{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_32{name}{version}{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_64{name}{version}{name}.dll
D:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL{name}{version}{name}.dll

Try running 'dnu restore'.
]

[TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.HostingInit(HostingEnvironmentFlags hostingFlags, PolicyLevel policyLevel, Exception appDomainCreationException) +539

[HttpException (0x80004005): Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.FirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +579
System.Web.HttpRuntime.EnsureFirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +118
System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestNotificationPrivate(IIS7WorkerRequest wr, HttpContext context) +660

[kichalla]

@BernhardGlueck Can you share how the output of your dnu command looks like?

[pekkah]

Our plan uses msbuild to publish the application.

The cmd from build logs msbuild publish executes to publish the web site

C:\Users\buildguest\.dnx\runtimes\dnx-clr-win-x86.1.0.0-beta6\bin\dnx.exe --appbase "C:\a\3504c0ed\project\src\Web.UI" "C:\Users\buildguest\.dnx\runtimes\dnx-clr-win-x86.1.0.0-beta6\bin\lib\Microsoft.Framework.PackageManager\Microsoft.Framework.PackageManager.dll" pack "C:\a\3504c0ed\project\src\Web.UI" --configuration Debug --out "..\..\artifacts\bin\Web.UI"

Can you pack your application in similar fashion? Maybe the problem is with using the publish instead of pack.