How to publish nopCommerce 4.10 to Win Server 2016?

I've downloaded the NopCommerce 4.10 source code, rebuilt with VS Studio Community 2017, everything is fine. I can start and run the website on my local machine. Perfect.

Then I installed a brand new Win Server 2016 (Evaluation copy), installed the .Net Core 2.13 Web Hosting Bundle, and configured an IIS Server. IIS Server started and I can saw that default iisstart image in http://localhost. Great.

Now I select Nop.Web in Solution Explorer, right click, "Publish", choose file system (I shared the WinServer2016  wwwroot folder to my dev PC as "O:\" drive), and go, files start to copy. After a while, it says "Web App was published successfully file://O:/". Excellent!

But when I tried to browse the website, it gave me this:



Any idea what I did wrong here? I didn't make any change to the source code. It is supposed to be "Drop-N-Run", correct?

Hello,

please set stdoutLogEnabled="true"  at web config.

After stop/start and go log folder at application root path.

There you can find exact error.

Hope you will understand.

Thanks! I changed the stdoutLogEnabled="true", also see that stdoutLogFile=".\Logs\stdout", verified file directory "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Logs\stdout" exists, and empty.

Then I stop and restarted the IIS Server, hit the http://localhost again. Went back to check the directory, it is still empty...

Strange

Hello,

Did you provide read and write permission to whole application folder?

Stupid stupid me. Yes that was it. Grant "Write" permission now I got the log file.

Let's see what's inside the log file:

Application startup exception: System.Exception: Plugin 'Must be assigned to customer role'. Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Plugins\bin\Nop.Plugin.DiscountRules.CustomerRoles.dll' is denied.
Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Plugins\bin\Nop.Plugin.DiscountRules.CustomerRoles.dll' is denied.
 ---> System.Exception: Plugin 'Must be assigned to customer role'. Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Plugins\bin\Nop.Plugin.DiscountRules.CustomerRoles.dll' is denied. ---> System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Plugins\bin\Nop.Plugin.DiscountRules.CustomerRoles.dll' is denied.
   at System.IO.FileSystem.CopyFile(String sourceFullPath, String destFullPath, Boolean overwrite)
   at System.IO.File.Copy(String sourceFileName, String destFileName, Boolean overwrite)
   at Nop.Core.Plugins.PluginManager.ShadowCopyFile(String pluginFilePath, String shadowCopyPlugFolder) in C:\Projects\NopCommerce_410\Libraries\Nop.Core\Plugins\PluginManager.cs:line 307
   at Nop.Core.Plugins.PluginManager.PerformFileDeploy(String plug, ApplicationPartManager applicationPartManager, NopConfig config, String shadowCopyPath) in C:\Projects\NopCommerce_410\Libraries\Nop.Core\Plugins\PluginManager.cs:line 214
   at Nop.Core.Plugins.PluginManager.Initialize(ApplicationPartManager applicationPartManager, NopConfig config) in C:\Projects\NopCommerce_410\Libraries\Nop.Core\Plugins\PluginManager.cs:line 479
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Nop.Core.Plugins.PluginManager.Initialize(ApplicationPartManager applicationPartManager, NopConfig config) in C:\Projects\NopCommerce_410\Libraries\Nop.Core\Plugins\PluginManager.cs:line 515
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Nop.Core.Plugins.PluginManager.Initialize(ApplicationPartManager applicationPartManager, NopConfig config) in C:\Projects\NopCommerce_410\Libraries\Nop.Core\Plugins\PluginManager.cs:line 526
   at Nop.Web.Framework.Infrastructure.Extensions.ServiceCollectionExtensions.ConfigureApplicationServices(IServiceCollection services, IConfiguration configuration) in C:\Projects\NopCommerce_410\Presentation\Nop.Web.Framework\Infrastructure\Extensions\ServiceCollectionExtensions.cs:line 58
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.ConventionBasedStartup.ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Internal.WebHost.EnsureApplicationServices()
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Internal.WebHost.Initialize()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Internal.WebHost.BuildApplication()
crit: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Internal.WebHost[6]
      Application startup exception

It seems that it's a permission issue, IIS_IUSERS doesn't have permission to the published folder?

Take a look at the folder -> Property -> Security, the "Read&Excecute" is kind-of checked, it's more like grey-out.



Or should I also grant "Full Control" "Write" permission to it?

Really appreciate your advice!

Hello,

You should give Grant read/write(full control) permission to wwwroot folder.

Stop/start once.

There we go! Now the nopCommerce installation page come up!

Thank you so much for the help! Really appreciate it!

Hello,

Enjoy with 4.1 and your welcome..!!