Dotnet Core publish to IIS from Mac

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I want to publish my dotnet core app to IIS from mac. I use VS code for code writing and Dotnet Core 1.1 for publishing to local directory. (for example: bin/release/publish). There are compiled my files, ready to copy to IIS. On my IIS I currently have installed web deploy 3.6 and this is my VPS machine. Is there elegant way, how to copy files? The another way is using docker, but in this case I have the same problem. Generated docker file with docker publisher tool and I need to copy from mac os.

Thank you for your time.

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There is no solid tooling yet, cross compilation is also troublesome. Once VS for Mac is ready I think it would be solved. Before that you should switch to Windows and publish from there. – Lex Li
Thank you for your answer. Visual studio for Mac is ready, but without publish. It looks like, you can publish only to azure. Maybe, I can try it with gulp-rsync for now. – Petr Tomášek
@LexLi So, VS for Mac really not support publish for now. – Petr Tomášek
it is not. Compared to VS, VS for Mac has a long way to go (why it is a Preview). But Microsoft/Xamarin 's next milestone would be it after shipping VS2017. – Lex Li
Not sure about VS Code but VS for Mac now has a publish to folder functionality. Publish to IIS is still pending though. You can track it's update from developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/idea/351842/… – sandiejat

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From a terminal window navigate to the folder where your .csproj file is. From there run 'dotnet publish -c release'. A folder called publish will be created in bin/Release/netcoreappX.X. You can copy those files to the appropriate directory on your server. If you need help setting up IIS, follow the link below.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/publishing/iis

You can also run 'dotnet publish -h' to see all of the different arguments you can pass to the publish command.

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Web Deploy (msdeploy.exe) seems to work in Mono, at least in WSL (Ubuntu 18.04). The tricky part is to extract the msi package somehow, which you can do easily on a Windows machine (you'll find the files in C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3).

Once you install Mono and obtain msdeploy.exe, just call the command, e.g.

mono msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:contentPath=/mnt/c/Data -dest:contentPath=test,ComputerName=https://example.com:8172/msdeploy.axd,UserName=WDeployAdmin,Password=PASSWORD,IncludeAcls=False,AuthType=Basic -enableRule:AppOffline -enableRule:DoNotDeleteRule -verbose -allowUntrusted:true

This lets you sync/copy the contents of /mnt/c/Data with the test web site in IIS on example.com with Web Deploy enabled.