The specified CGI application encountered an error and the server terminated the process

Question

I am hosting a asp.net 5 application on azure, the code is complied for beta8, the application runs fine on the local environment and when i publish the code on the azure si

Answer 1

Short Answer

For us the fix was to to UseIISIntegration() on the WebHostBuilder.

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var host = new WebHostBuilder()
        .UseContentRoot(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory())
        .UseKestrel()
        .UseIISIntegration() // Necessary for Azure.
        .UseStartup()
        .Build();

     host.Run();
}

More Details

Our web.config looks like this:

Our project.json looks like this:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "Microsoft.NETCore.App": {
      "version": "1.0.0",
      "type": "platform"
    },
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration": "1.1.0-*",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel": "1.1.0-*"
  },
  "tools": {
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final"
  },
  "frameworks": {
    "netcoreapp1.0": {}
  },
  "buildOptions": {
    "emitEntryPoint": true
  },
  "publishOptions": {
    "include": [
      "web.config"
    ]
  },
  "scripts": {
    "postpublish": [
      "dotnet publish-iis --publish-folder %publish:OutputPath% --framework %publish:FullTargetFramework%"
    ]
  }
}

Our nuget.config looks like this: