By Vincent Nwonah, Alibaba Cloud Tech Share Author. Tech Share is Alibaba Cloud's incentive program to encourage the sharing of technical knowledge and best practices within the cloud community.
ASP.NET Core is a Microsoft Web Framework for developing Web Applications that can run in any environment, including Windows and Linux servers. According to Microsoft Docs:
"ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform, high-performance, open-source framework for building modern, cloud-based, Internet-connected applications."
This tutorial provides detailed step by step instructions for a first time Alibaba Cloud user to create a Linux Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance and host an ASP.NET Core Application on it.
Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) provides fast memory and the latest Intel CPUs to help you to power your cloud applications and achieve faster results with low latency. All ECS instances come with Anti-DDoS protection to safeguard your data and applications from DDoS and Trojan attacks.
For this tutorial, our setup uses the Nginx Web Server to forward requests to a running ASP.NET core application. We will follow the under-listed steps to successfully create and deploy an ASP.NET Core Web Application to Alibaba Cloud ECS.
You should have a valid Alibaba Cloud account. If you don't have one already, sign up to the Free Trial to enjoy up to $300 worth in Alibaba Cloud products. To create a new Alibaba Cloud ECS instance, you can follow the steps in this tutorial. You can also refer to this tutorial to set up your first Ubuntu server on Alibaba Cloud.
We assume that you already have Visual Studio installed on your local machine. If you want to skip this step you can use a repo I already created at https://github.com/vnwonah/AlibabaCloudECSDeploy
I will be using Ubuntu on Windows to SSH into the Instance. To learn how to install any Linux distro on Windows see article here.
ssh root@YOUR_IP_ADDRESS
. (Replace YOUR_IP_ADDRESS with the Instance Internet IP Address.To run our .NET Web Application on Alibaba Cloud we need to install the .NET Core Runtime. Use the following commands:
wget -q https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dotnet-sdk-2.1
Type dotnet –version
to confirm that the .NET Core Runtime is installed.
Now we will pull our source code into the ECS Instance. For this tutorial we will simply pull into our user folder.
Install git on the ECS instance. First run apt-get update
, then run the command apt install git
. Confirm that git installed successfully by typing git –version
and see the output.
Install libunwind08 with the command:
sudo apt-get install libunwind8
Clone your repository using:
git clone https://github.com/vnwonah/AlibabaCloudECSDeploy
CD into the directory containing the .csproj file. In our case we use the command:
cd AlibabaCloudECSDeploy/AlibabaCloudECSDeploy
Then type the command:
dotnet publish -c Release -o ./published -r linux-x64
This restores all dependencies for our project and builds a .dll file. At this point we are ready to configure Nginx and use it to forward requests to our application.
In this section, we will install and configure Nginx to proxy requests to our .NET Core Web Application.
Install Nginx with the command sudo apt-get install nginx
. This command installs the Nginx Web Server. At this point if you open your ECS Public IP Address in a browser, you should see the Nginx Welcome Page.
We need to configure Nginx to forward requests to the .NET Core Application. To do this, run the command sudo pico /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
, clear everything in the file and type in
[Unit]
Description=Alibaba Cloud Net Core App
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/root/netcoreapp
ExecStart=/usr/bin/dotnet /root/AlibabaCloudECSDeploy/ALibabaCloudECSDeploy/AppName.dll
Restart=always
RestartSec=10 # Restart service after 10 seconds if dotnet service crashes
SyslogIdentifier=dotnet-core-app
User=root
Environment=ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Production
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Now enable the service using the command sudo systemctl enable dotnet-core-app.service
and start it using sudo systemctl start dotnet-core-app.service
.
At this point you should open a browser and navigate to your ECS Public IP Address and you will see your ASP.NET Core Application now running.
In this article we went from creating a new Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) Instance to hosting a .NET Core Web Application using Nginx as Server on it.
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5448106824581746 February 7, 2021 at 1:04 pm
There is a mistake in Nginx Configuration part, the author put the service setup script in the nginx configuration file