Web Wiz Hosting Support Forums - Uploading asp.net core app via ftp

I then put the rest of my files into the home directory.

But this does not work. Have I done this wrong, or do I have to change my permission settings?

I tried deleting the web.config file in the wwwroot folder too because I already have one with my app. but that did nothing. Ermm

It's an asp.net core 2.0 application that is not self hosted(so maybe you have not that runtime on the server?)

When setting permissions, I have really no idea what to choose here. There are two options 1) for my domain name and one 2) called "network service". I only want to expose the wwwroot content, the rest I only want my app to be able to access freely.

While you can upload a ASP.NET Core website via FTP you would usually use WebDeploy from within Visual Studio to publish the application to your hosting space. WebDeploy can be enabled for your website by editing the websites settings in your hosting control panel.

If you want to use FTP to upload your ASP.NET Core application, you would upload your .NET Core application to the wwwroot folder. This is the application root for your website so all your .NET Core files and folders get uploaded to this folder.

You should not delete your websites wwwroot folder as this will delete the application root for your website. If you have deleted the wwwroot folder please create a support ticket from your Client Area account so that we can check that the folder is still working correctly.

You set permissions using the user named after your domain name. Network Services should be ignored as this is for older ASP.NET applications that are not running in their own dedicated app pool.

If you still have problems and your .NET Core application is failing to start create a support ticket from your Client Area account and we can have a look for you.

But what I shoul've done is just dump the whole app into that wwwroot folder, because the app controls the requests with it's own server(kestrel). So all files are secure there, and the app's own wwwroot folder is where static files go that are open to everyone.

.NET Core Apps have sub folder within the application also called wwwroot so I can see where the confusion can come from.

Normally you would use WebDeploy to publish your .NET Core application which would by default be published to the websites wwwroot folder without the need to navigate to the correct folder.

I think some thought will need to put in to this as changing the name of the wwwroot folder to something else will confuse our existing customers who are accustom to seeing the wwwroot folder. Will also look at updating the support info for those using FTP to upload their .NET Core applications.