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DevOps deploying Azure Web Apps to wwwroot/Content/D_C/a/1/s/ in Linux container

I have nearly the most simple Pipeline/Release for a .Net 8 project.

The .zip file has a Content/D_C/a/1/s/ and since it's deploying to a linux container it doesn't attempt to unwrap this. I tried changing my build host to ubuntu-24.04 but it said that I don't have mono installed. I think that might be the actual issue I need to solve. I can't see anywhere I'm targeting .Net Framework in my core app. All my projects target net8.0 only. So why would it want mono? But either way, this should work building with a Windows VM; right?

This somewhat describes my issue: Azure web app get deployed but wrong content in wwwroot folder

Solution

  • I can reproduce the same issue when using the VSBuild task template default argument.

    For example:

    - task: VSBuild@1
  displayName: 'Build solution'
  inputs:
    msbuildArgs: '/p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:WebPublishMethod=Package /p:PackageAsSingleFile=true /p:SkipInvalidConfigurations=true /p:DesktopBuildPackageLocation="$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)\WebApp.zip" /p:DeployIisAppPath="Default Web Site"'
    platform: '$(BuildPlatform)'
    configuration: '$(BuildConfiguration)'

    enter image description here

    To remove additional folder path in the zip package, we need to change the VSbuild task argument:

    VSbuild Argument sample:

    /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:DeployDefaultTarget=WebPublish /p:WebPublishMethod=FileSystem /p:publishUrl="$(build.artifactStagingDirectory)\\"

    Build Pipeline sample:

    steps:
- task: NuGetCommand@2
  displayName: 'NuGet restore'
  inputs:
    restoreSolution: '**\*.sln'

- task: VSBuild@1
  displayName: 'Build solution'
  inputs:
    msbuildArgs: '/p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:DeployDefaultTarget=WebPublish /p:WebPublishMethod=FileSystem /p:publishUrl="$(build.artifactStagingDirectory)\\"'
    platform: '$(BuildPlatform)'
    configuration: '$(BuildConfiguration)'

- task: ArchiveFiles@2
  displayName: 'Archive $(build.artifactStagingDirectory)'
  inputs:
    rootFolderOrFile: '$(build.artifactStagingDirectory)'
    includeRootFolder: false

- task: PublishBuildArtifacts@1
  displayName: 'Publish Artifact'
  inputs:
    PathtoPublish: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/$(Build.BuildId).zip'

    We can use archive files task to zip all output files.

    In this case, it will not contains additional folder path in the zip file.

    Result:

    enter image description here

    Then when we deploy the package to Web App, the files will be deployed to wwwroot/ folder.

    For more detailed info, you can refer to this doc: Deploy Web App

    Web packages created via the MSBuild task (with default arguments) have a nested folder structure that can be deployed correctly only by Web Deploy.