Deploying into Azure Web App web root with Azure DevOps task “Azure App Service Deploy” v3

Question

I'm using Azure DevOps with the "Azure App Service Deploy" task (AzureRmWebAppDeployment@3) to deploy to an Azure Web Site and am having trouble deploying to the web root.

The application is PHP and has a "public" folder which is designed to be the only folder to be exposed publicly. The folder structure is like this:

/
  application/
  vendor/
  public/
    index.php
    favicon.ico
    images/
    etc...

When I configure Azure App Service Deploy task with the "Virtual application" setting to "" (as in blank), it actually appears to default to the "/" virtual application.

This is problematic as the default application ("/") should be pointing to /sites/wwwroot/public/ such that the index file is at /sites/wwwroot/public/index.php.

What happens in this setup is that the deploy task appears to default to "/" when the "Virtual application" setting is left blank, which results in deploying to /sites/wwwroot/public so that my index file is at /sites/www/root/public/public/index.php (which would be accessible on the web at https://app.azurewebsites.net/public/index.php)

How can I deploy the application to the web root /sites/wwwroot/ such that my index file is located at /sites/wwwroot/public/index.php on disk?

Azure DevOps

App Service

AjayKumar-MSFT AjayKumar-MSFT · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-04T18:51:06

Yes, that configuration for pointing to "Public" from Virtual Application and directories is the correct process: By default, App Service directs web requests to the root directory of your app code. For example, Laravel starts in the public subdirectory. If you wish to access your app would be accessible at http://example-site.com/public, but you would really want to direct http://example-site.com to the public directory instead. Ensure that the default document( index.php) is appropriatey set.

  -<action type=”Rewrite” url=”index.php” appendQueryString=”true” />

So go into your public folder, create a web.config file with this line - If the configuration is all done, just to narrow down the issue and if feasible try to restart the app and see if that helps.

Deploying into Azure Web App web root with Azure DevOps task “Azure App Service Deploy” v3

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