I have an ASP.NET 4.6.1 application that I am trying to deploy to a remote web server using TeamCity and MSBuild. Below is the MSBuild build step within TeamCity.
When I run the build in TeamCity, it always fails on this build step with a FILE_IN_USE_ERROR. The DLLs that are being updated before the error are usually the same, but sometimes they are different.
[MSBuild output] Info: Updating file (MyApp\bin\roslyn\Microsoft.VisualBasic.Core.targets).
[10:35:23]
[MSBuild output] Info: Updating file (MyApp\bin\roslyn\System.AppContext.dll).
[10:35:23]
[MSBuild output] Info: Updating file (MyApp\bin\roslyn\System.Collections.Immutable.dll).
[10:35:23]
[MSBuild output] MSDEPLOY : error Code: ERROR_FILE_IN_USE [C:\BuildAgent\work\b89cd3dfa447b\MyApp\MyApp.csproj]
I've already read through many articles (here, here, here, and here) suggesting that I drop an app_offline.htm file before deploying so that the IIS can re-route traffic and the file locking issues will stop. I tried that and it doesn't work. I still get the file in use issues during this build step.
I've also read in plenty of other discussions that another solution is to stop the application pool, deploy the app updates, and start the application pool. This is not a realistic solution because the deployment usually lasts between 15 and 20 minutes. Plus, this doesn't allow me to show a nice message to any current users.
I've been reading about this for a while now and it seems like this is a common use case for deployment to an IIS web server. Shouldn't this just work without locking files? Does anybody know of any other solutions to this problem?
I would try by stopping app pool to see if that`s a root cause of the issue.
But I'm not sure why it fails on .csproj file, because usually you don`t deploy those on server. So either it fails on different file (that is actually in use by web application) or it fails during build, not deploy (than app-pool stop will have no affect).
I am publishing my web app in Azure. The following Error appears:
Error 12 Web deployment task failed. (Could not complete an operation with the specified provider ("dbDacFx") when connecting using the Web Management Service. This can occur if the server administrator has not authorized the user for this operation. dbDacFx http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=178034
I have tried to un-install all Web Deploy folders in my Program Files Folder but even with nothing opened, it is telling me it is in use and that I can't delete the folder. I have since installed the newest version of Web Deployment.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
From the error message it can be several things. But I can suggest at first to check if you are creating or altering Database schema behind the application. If so that can be the issue. For instance the user executing the script has no enough rights to perform the desired task.
Please see Azure SQL docs to grant correct sql rights to the user.
I'm integrating MSDeploy into my build process, and having problems authenticating. The following command works fine:
msdeploy -verb:sync -source:appHostConfig="KitchenPC",computerName=192.168.0.3,userName=Administrator,password=secret -dest:package=c:\DeployTest\KPC.zip
However, this does NOT work:
msdeploy -verb:sync -source:appHostConfig="KitchenPC",computerName=192.168.0.3,userName=kpcpublish,password=secret -dest:package=c:\DeployTest\KPC.zip
And yields the error:
Error Code: ERROR_USER_NOT_ADMIN
More Information: Connected to '192.168.0.11' using the Web Deployment Agent Service, but could not authorize. Make sure you are an administ
rator on '192.168.0.11'. Learn more at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_USER_NOT_ADMIN.
Error: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.
Error count: 1.
I've followed the instructions in the link above, and any other docs I could find, which pretty much all say the same thing:
I created an account called kpcpublish
I added this account to a group called MSDepSvcUsers - Heck, I even added the account to Administrators
I right clicked on the site and selected Deploy->Configure Web Deploy Publishing and added kpcpublish to the list. It says the following:
.
Publish enabled for 'SERVER\kpcpublish' Granted 'SERVER\kpcpublish'
full control on 'C:\Website' Successfully created settings file
'C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\SERVER_kpcpublish_KitchenPC.PublishSettings'
There must be some step I'm missing, but I just can't figure out what could be.
UPDATE:
Using the full HTTP path for the computerName property, I get the error:
Error Code: ERROR_DESTINATION_NOT_REACHABLE More Information: Could
not connect to the remote computer ("192.168.0.3"). On the remote
computer, make sure that Web Deploy is installed and that the required
process ("Web Management Service") is started. Learn more at:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_DES
TINATION_NOT_REACHABLE. Error: Unable to connect to the remote server
Error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not
properly respond after a period of time, or established connection fa
iled because connected host has failed to respond 192.168.0.3:8192
Error count: 1.
I've checked and the Web Management Service is indeed running.
Another Update:
I've completely paved the system and set it up again from scratch. I've done nothing out of the ordinary, just installed the IIS role and made sure to check "Management Service" under Management Tools, which is required for WMSVC to run. I then installed Web PI, and installed "Recommended Configuration for Hosting Providers", which will install Web Deploy 3.0. However, I did notice there was an error while installing this (I believe I got this error the last time as well). It looks like:
I've also attached the log files here.
I then tried to install Web Deploy 3.0 manually, however it says it's already installed. Next, I downloaded the MSI directly from http://www.iis.net/download/webdeploy and ran it in "Repair" mode. That seems to have worked. I also noticed that the WMSVC service is up and running. So this looks good.
Still, MSDeploy will not connect. I thought it might be some sort of firewall issue, so I ran it locally. I've tried using both HTTPS and HTTP to connect. HTTPS gives me an error, HTTP just times out after 2-3 minutes.
HTTPS:
msdeploy -verb:sync -source:appHostConfig="Default Web Site",computerName=https://STAGING:8172/msdeploy.axd,userName=Administrator,password=Khorf123 -dest:package=c:\DeleteMe.zip
Info: Using ID 'f3a54096-adc4-4f54-9e4f-ad8fde12edb6' for connections to the remote server.
Error Code: ERROR_CERTIFICATE_VALIDATION_FAILED
More Information: Connected to the remote computer ("staging") using the specified process ("Web Management Service"), but could not verify the server's certifi
cate. If you trust the server, connect again and allow untrusted certificates.
Learn more at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_CERTIFICATE_VALIDATION_FAILED.
Error: The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel.
Error: The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure.
Error count: 1.
HTTP:
msdeploy -verb:sync -source:appHostConfig="Default Web Site",computerName=http://STAGING:8172/msdeploy.axd,userName=Administrator,password=Khorf123 -dest:package=c:\DeleteMe.zip
Info: Using ID 'ebee66f0-08e5-4d9d-98ea-0c2e59784895' for connections to the remote server.
Error: Could not complete the request to remote agent URL 'http://staging:8172/msdeploy.axd'.
Error: The operation has timed out
Error count: 1.
(Updated 2016-03-07 - NOTE: non-Administrator deployments also require ?site=IIS_SITE_NAME after msdeploy.axd, otherwise the connection is treated as global and requires Administrator access)
Not sure how missed this originally, but your problem is the computerName parameter. Non-administrator deployments are only supported when using WMSVC, for which you need to specify the full URL.
Try the following
msdeploy -verb:sync ^
-source:appHostConfig="KitchenPC",computerName=https://192.168.0.3:8172/MsDeploy.axd,userName=kpcpublish,password=secret,authType=Basic ^
-dest:package=c:\DeployTest\KPC.zip
From the docs:
The computer name will be translated to the default Web Deploy URL. For example, computerName=Server1 will become http://Server1/MsDeployAgentService. If the remote service is running with a custom port or URL, you must specify the full URL
And from the install instructions:
The MSI will not install the Web Management Service handler component if the Web Management Service is not installed; the handler component is necessary for non-administrator deployments
(I couldn't find a more explicit canonical source that describes WMSVC as a requirement for non-admin deployments)
Figured It Out!
So, it seems that (at least by default), WMSVC only listens on HTTPS, and HTTP will just time out. However, since my certificate was self-signed, I had to use the -allowUntrusted command line option.
That was almost enough. I also had to specify authType=Basic like Richard originally suggested. So, to put it all together, this is the MSDeploy command line that will actually work:
msdeploy -verb:sync -source:appHostConfig="Default Web Site",computerName=https://192.168.0.3:8172/msdeploy.axd,authType=Basic,userName=Publish,password=secret -dest:package=c:\DeployTest\KPC.zip -allowUntrusted
After configuring Web Deploy my server as follows. I continued to get HTTP 404 connection failures. In may what worked for me was the following additional efforts...
Uninstall all previous version of Web Deploy that existed. I was not even aware they existed; however, previous versions appear to conflict with completing a connection to the latest Web Deploy service. Newer version don't uninstall their predecessors. In the last part, I was getting HTTP 401.7 - File Extension Denied.
For good measure, performed a repair of the current version of Web Deploy, currently Microsoft Web Deploy 3.6
For good measure, recreate and import my Visual Studio 2013 deployment profile...
recreate the publish settings file using the Configure Web Deploy Publishing dialogue available from the Deploy context menu option of the target website in IIS Manager's Connections panel. (Note, the publish settings file will be recreated when you press Setup as the file whose full path is specified in the dialogue entry, Specify a location to save the publish settings file)
Copy or otherwise make the publish settings file available to Visual Studio and selecting Publish from your project's context menu, create a Visual Studio publish profile by importing the publish settings file.
Try restarting the wmsvc service on the target machine
As alluded to above, make sure that you are connecting over HTTPS. If you are attempting to connect as Admin, but not using SSL, you get the following error:
Error Code: ERROR_USER_NOT_ADMIN
More Information: Connected to 'host' using the Web Deployment Agent Service, but could not authorize. Make sure you are an administrator on 'host'.
(Where 'host' is your server name)
For me the problem was that my password expired... I've noticed it when loging out and then tried to login back trhough remote desktop.
I have CruiseControl.Net setup as my continuous integration environment. I've been working on adding a Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Project to my solution but I'm getting a weird "access denied" error and I can't figure out why.
I have CC.Net running under its own account on my server which is a member of the administrators group, so the CC.Net service should have access to everything it needs. The problem is when I trigger a build from the web interface the build fails with the error:
C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WebDeployment\v9.0\Microsoft.WebDeployment.targets(667,5):
error : Access is denied.
The particular task on that line is the "CreateVirtualDirectory" task to create an IIS virtual directory for my asp.net application.
What's weird is if I open a command prompt on my build server running as the exact same user account the CruiseControl service is running as and run my build script everything builds successfully - including the creation of the IIS virtual directory. It's only when a build is initiated through the web interface that it fails.
I don't understand what the difference is between the two since presumably they are both running as the same user with the same privileges.
Suggestions?
Is it possible that the virtual folder it is trying to create already exists? Another thought - when you run from a command line, it is possible you have different environment variables or drive mappings that CC.Net wouldn't have?
I’m trying to use a (VS 2008) Web Deployment project in a TFS solution to deploy the web site to the (TFS 2008) build server to run web based unit tests.
For some reason, that I can't yet figure out, it is failing to create the virtual directory:
Using "CreateVirtualDirectory" task from assembly "C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\WebDeployment\v9.0\Microsoft.WebDeployment.Tasks.dll".
Task "CreateVirtualDirectory"
Initializing IIS Web Server...
C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\WebDeployment\v9.0\Microsoft.WebDeployment.targets(667,5): error : Access is denied.
C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\WebDeployment\v9.0\Microsoft.WebDeployment.targets(667,5): error :
Failed to create virtual directory 'abc'.
Done executing task "CreateVirtualDirectory" -- FAILED.
The TFSService user certainly is in the Administrators group on the TFS Build machine (which is running Windows Server 2008). I don’t know what else could be wrong. I’ve checked the event log an there’s no clues there. I am able to manually create the virtual directory on that machine through the IIS console with no problem.
Any ideas what could be the problem or suggestions for how to diagnose this further?
it has got to be permissions...did you try putting the TFSService in the same Groups you are in?
Is the TFS account running under the same privileges as the account that you use to connect to IIS? Do as Craig suggested and move the TFS account into the groups that you participate in.
You're sure that the build is running under the TFSService id and not under another id set up just for builds, and which may not be in the administrator's group? I haven't done more than just play with automated builds since I do mostly solo development, but I recall setting up a separate build id when I was looking at this.
I have seen this occur when the IIS server wasn't running on the default port. I'd recommend checking IIS to see if it's running on port 80 as a step to diagnose your issue further.
I eventually managed to get deployment working by calling the _CopyWebApplication build target of the web application from my TFS build script (after manually creating the IIS virtual directory).
I had to add an additional target though to get linked files in the project to be copied also as the built in _CopyWebApplication target doesn't include those.