ASP.NET Core 1.1 runs fine locally but when publishing to Azure says “An error occurred while starting the application.”

Question

I\'ve been developing an ASP.NET Core web app, based largely on the MVC template provided in Visual Studio 2017 RC2. It runs just fine in local debug mode, but when I try to

Answer 1

Question is probably duplicated - please refer to ASP.NET Core hosting - 500 internal server error.

Quick answer:

You need to set: stdoutLogEnabled="true" and stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout". Also, you need to create logs folder manually.