Couldn't find a project to run. Ensure a project exists in D:\home\site\wwwroot

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Sam picture Sam · Apr 26, 2018 · Viewed 22.9k times · Source

I've been wrestling with this issue forever now. I'm trying to get my ASP.NET Core 2.1 app to run on Azure App Service.

Here's the strange behavior I'm seeing in Kudu.

I see the dll file for my project in Kudu console in D:\home\site\wwwroot. I then type dotnet run myproject.dll and I get the following error:

Couldn't find a project to run. Ensure a project exists in D:\home\site\wwwroot

Any idea what's going on here?

Answer

Marcus Höglund picture Marcus Höglund · Apr 26, 2018

From the docs

The dotnet run command is used in the context of projects, not built assemblies. If you're trying to run a framework-dependent application DLL instead, you must use dotnet without a command.

So try and run it like this

dotnet myproject.dll

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