Trying to install this in an existing asp.net MVC site.

[juliandormon]

Sorry. I am a bit of a newbie here.

I have an MVC .net site running on IIS. I would like to have this run under a directory of that site but I cannot figure out how to install it?

I have set up the blog to run under it's own domain and IIS site (IIS 10) without issue. I would like to however run the site from sub-directory from the other domain.

To that end I have added an application to my other IIS site, named it "blog" and pointed it to the root of the working site. This keeps resulting in a 500 error, but I cannot seem to find what the error says despite enabling detailed errors in the web.config.

Any ides how I may get the blog to run in a sub-directory?

Thanks in advance.

I will continue to try and find the error message.

[juliandormon]

I switched the application to a virtual directory and then I can see the following error:
"Log Name: Application
Source: IIS AspNetCore Module
Date: 3/7/2018 11:32:36 AM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: WIN-FMS1UAD9TN6
Description:
Application 'MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST/WWW.DOMAIN.NET' with physical root 'C:\Sites\www.domain.net' failed to start process with commandline ' ', ErrorCode = '0x80070057 : 0.
Event Xml:



1000
2
0
0x80000000000000

16034273
Application
WIN-FMS1UAD9TN6



Application 'MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST/WWW.DOMAIN.NET' with physical root 'C:\Sites\www.domain.net' failed to start process with commandline ' ', ErrorCode = '0x80070057 : 0.

"

[juliandormon]

I added the blog application under the default site in IIS so I could run in it localhost, and still the server returns a 500 response but there is no content. Impossible to see what the error is. There is no error in the Windows Application log, either. I was able to turn on request tracing. That definitely shows that an error occurred but does not provide anything meaningful to help me understand what could be happening.

[pwdst]

Is your existing MVC site running .NET Core or .NET Framework? This sounds a lot like an issue with the .NET Core runtime on your computer and/or host. Which version(s) of .NET Core are installed and are you using IIS? In addition to the runtime you will need the ASP.NET Core Module to run .NET Core apps in a reverse proxy configuration (the as-yet unreleased .NET Core version 2.1 will support running in process).

Verify you have .NET Core 2.0x installed and see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/iis/?tabs=aspnetcore2x and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/iis/troubleshoot

If this is shared hosting not all hosts support .NET Core - ask your host if they currently support .NET Core 2.0 and if not when (if ever) they plan to do so.

[juliandormon]

Thank you for your help. Unfortunately I was not able to get the Minblog.Core started. I did however find your MiniBlog project and I was able to install that as a virtual application under my domain. I had to hide a few of our dependencies from the blog in the web.config file using . Thanks so much for your responsiveness and of course for the great work!

[pwdst]

Glad the response was helpful Julian - for absolute clarity I am not the author of MiniBlog or MiniBlog.Core. The praise belongs to @madskristensen

[juliandormon]

Ok! Sorry about that. Kudos to you and Mads then!!!!! Thanks again.