Azure WebApp - Unable to auto-detect the runtime stack of your app

9
votes

I'm trying to create Web App which is just having a Static HTML. I'm following this link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/app-service-web-get-started-html. But when I execute the following command

az webapp up --location westeurope --name .

Got the error - " Could not auto-detect the runtime stack of your app" .

6
azureazure-web-app-service
There seems to be a contradiction between the quickstart and the documentation which does not list static html as being supported. You will probably have more luck reporting this in the Feedback section of the Quickstart. – Crowcoder
I have posted this in the Feedback section. Got to know that It is a known problem. Github link for the reference: github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/43633 – Murugesh

6 Answers

1
votes

I just tried following the steps mentioned in the documentation. Works for me.

mkdir quickstart
cd quickstart
git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/html-docs-hello-world.git
cd html-docs-hello-world
az webapp up --location westeurope --name azurewebapptest123
1
votes

I have tried the similar steps using the sample repo and was able to reproduce it.

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It's a known bug for Azure CLI 2.0.78 and team is working on it, Which you can track it here:

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/43633

Work around of this issue is to use the older version of Azure CLi e.g. 2.0.75 * for deploying the solution.

Hope it helps.

1
votes

I tried the following, but added the --html flag at the end of the az webapp up command to bypass auto detection:

mkdir quickstart
cd quickstart
git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/html-docs-hello-world.git
cd html-docs-hello-world
az webapp up --location westeurope --name azurewebapptest123 --html

That forces HTML. In the help for the command it implies auto-detection works for a bunch of language, but not for static HTML.

0
votes

Try to manually include a web.config file and/or select the stack on General Settings:

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If you have no backend, the best option to host a static site is through Azure Storage:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blob-static-website

0
votes

I had the same problem. I solved it by using the flag --html to define explicitly the runtime according to the documentation of the runtime detection. https://github.com/Azure/app-service-linux-docs/blob/master/AzWebAppUP/runtime_detection.md

So, the solution is the following line of code:

az webapp up --location westeurope --name <name> --html

N.B: I used Azure cloud shell.

0
votes

Make sure you're running the command "az webapp up --location westeurope --name" from your application root, ie inside 'html-docs-hello-world' folder.