Hey, I try to host my own Umbraco site on Linux and tried a new Umbraco Template for aspnet core and then deploy it with: dotnet publish -c Release Has anyone ever done something like this? I already googled it but couldn't find anything good. Youtube tutorials as this point were also no help to me. When I try to run it with dotnet run it thows an error. If I try donet test --project myproject.dll I get the error from the title I created here. Anyone got some tips or help for me? Kind regards, Daniel

Hi Daniel, maybe this can help

> When I try to run it with dotnet run it thows an error. You run the site using

dotnet MyProject.dll

- not with

dotnet run

. The dll there is whatever your website project is called, for example, mine is called

Cultiv.csproj

and the output dll after

dotnet publish -c Release

is

Cultiv.dll

, so I'd start the site with

dotnet Cultiv.dll

. Note that you'll get 0 output on the CLI after that, the site is running on port 5000 by default, so

wget https://localhost:5000

is a way to test it works. Note: I've not actually properly hosted a site on Linux before, so I don't quite know how to proceed from there. The above video seems a bit convoluted, but is probably a good way to do it, but I have not attempted to learn nginx yet 😅 My main, biggest, worry would be: okay, you've set up a certificate with Let's encrypt, cool, that will work for 6 months.. and then what! Cert will expire, how to renew it, can that be automated, can I get a heads up if that fails, etc.

@oalberto Exactly this video I was following. With exception I did run donet run, because I was told so in my other thread: https://discord.com/channels/869656431308189746/1131893857299222529 @Sebastiaan Thank you, this is something I didn't knew. I'll try to fix the issue now and comment so far if it worked or not... Wouldn't you think it would be handy to have install instructions for umbraco documentation, so that other "noobs" are in the spot to do the same thing? In my opinion it would help a lot of people I think ... 🙂

It's extremely difficult to document "how to host Umbraco" as there is so many different ways and opinions. We usually point to Microsoft documentation for how to deploy to servers etc. To be honest, we have very little hands-on experience with Linux at HQ so we don't really know what's best either. Most things we do are Azure App service which just sets all this up for us so we don't need to think about how to manage servers. I'd love to see good Umbraco-specific tutorials made by community members though!

@Sebastiaan I thought about creating a simple tutorial for people who want try to host on Linux. The question is would it make sense to create it on umbraco documentation? A few steps on how to install this and that, how to run the dll and what to copy over and what not .... If it wouldn't make it into the documentation I could also create a short youtube video I guess ... Whats the way to go here? documentation or youtube?

Youtube + a blog post would be great (https://dev.to is awesome to create blog posts easily) - text is great for Googling and videos are great for some people to get a feel for how everything fits together.

@Sebastiaan hmm never used dev.to but I think i really could do both. If I find the time to cut the video and such... But I guess I want to give something back to such a great project which is in my opinion the best on the market. (umbracoCMS) I let you people know until when I got it finished. Should I post the dev.to link with my article somewhere? So that people will find it from the umbraco scene, or let them simply google it? 🙂

That's awesome, so happy for people who love to give back! Once you have a dev.to account we can add it to the Community Blogs (https://github.com/umbraco/OurUmbraco/blob/main/OurUmbraco.Site/config/CommunityBlogs.json) list and then it will automatically publish new articles to #882981290662580264 and an RSS feed (https://our.umbraco.com/communityblogsrss). And of course, feel free to throw it on Twitter (if you're still on there), Mastodon, etc.!

That sounds like a plan. I'll give my best to create a simple instruction for people who want to host on linux... 🙂

Ooh we have a tutorial https://community.umbraco.com/learn-about-the-community/blog-posts/how-to-add-your-own-blog-post/

Now I’m curious as well 😅 maybe I will try it. I’ve published .net core on Ubuntu before but without things like certificates, just for demo purposes

@oalberto at the moment for simplicity I only use sqlite ... erverything works so far but when I try to start the application with dotnet myProject.dll I get path not found ... I developed on macOS and copied files over to a linux vm and with different user and paths ... any hints on how and where to resolve that? The Video postet by you @oalberto shows even a way how to automatically resolve with certbot https encryption. You need nginx installed in a ubuntu machine and also apt-get install dotnet-core-sdk-7.0 nginx -y

If you are using nginx, the service is responsible for running the dotnet app “ExecStart=/usr/bin/dotnet /var/netcore/Application.dll” what you are saying is that “dotnet app.DLL” doesn’t work? You’ve confirmed that dotnet can be executed from any location on the OS (included in path) and has access to DLL location?

If not on nginx, are you in the correct folder? I did this wrong the other day as well 😅

@oalberto for debugging purpose I dind't come so far to adjust the service I simply did cd to the directory and startetd dotnet application.dll ... At the moment I've it the same way as you! Have you created the project on the linux server or did you copy an existent one to Linux? the problem with an existent one is that the path's are not matching... @Sebastiaan Thanks for the tipp, but correct folder it is. It shows me macOS paths and usernames but not the linux ones and they must be somewhere inside the project but at the moment I can't find them where to edit ...

What is the error with the paths? Can you share it?

one second

Something related with static assets apparently

yeah, I think I copied the files from the project via ftp

It’s not supposed to. I’ve published multiple asp.net core projects developed on windows and macOS on Linux azure web apps without issue

yeah found the issue ... i had multiple exports and didn't look into the inner folders, don't know what kind of mistakes I've all made ... im sorry for taking ur time !! :/

No problem 👌