asp.net core app deployed on iis meets 500 internal server error

Question

:( Oops. 500 Internal Server Error An error occurred while starting the application.

This message came out when I added database fu

Answer 1

I had similar issue after istalling dotnetcore-windowshosting using chocolatey while doing AWS ec2 instance bootstrapping.

When I checked my IIS modules AspNetCoreModule was missing.

This solved my issue. https://github.com/aspnet/IISIntegration/issues/434

I had to uninstall chocolatey package, restart machine and install it again.

Hope this helps!