Azure Web App deploy: Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the destination because it is locked by an external process

Question

I am using the \"Azure Web App Deployment\" build step in VSTS to publish an ASP.NET Core API to an Azure Web App:

Occasionally, this step breaks with the f

Answer 1

You can create two Power Shell scripts:

stopapp.ps1:

param($websiteName)
$website = Get-AzureWebsite -Name $websiteName
Stop-AzureWebsite -Name $websiteName

startapp.ps1:

param($websiteName)
$website = Get-AzureWebsite -Name $websiteName
Start-AzureWebsite -Name $websiteName

And then add an "Azure PowerShell" task before and after "Azure Web App Deployment" task to stop the web app before deploy and start the app after deploy.