Publishing to Azure

I have a successful deployment of nopCommerce 4.20 running locally  and I have made some minor changes to the Vies, etc. I now want to deploy to Azure. The webdeploy of Nop.Web from Visual Studio seems to work fine and igf I look at the files on the Azure server they are what I expect, but the site that runs wants to reinstall rather than just run as it does locally.

I must be missing something really simple. please could someone point me in the right direction.

Hello,

Your published nopCommerce is probably missing the dataSettings.json and installedPlugins.json files from the ~/App_Data directory if it opens the Install page after you publish it to Azure.
I don't think you'll want your published nopCommerce to have those 2 files from your local nopCommerce instance anyway. The dataSettings.json will contain the connection string to your local database and I don't think you want your live store to connect to your local database.

You should rather copy just the installedPlugins.json file to your ~/App_Data directory and create a new dataSettings.json file that will connect to your production database. That is if your production database is restored from a backup of your local database. If not, just install nopCommerce through the Install page.

Hope that helps!

Regards,
Anton

Thanks for your help Anton


the datasettings.json and installedPlugins.json files in App_Data on Azure are correct and point to the production database on a fast2host server but I still just get he install page.


Is it just these two files that tell nopCommerce that there is already a populated database?

Only datasettings.json stops the install