dotnet_web_linux.md

To serve a .NET web app on an Ubuntu server in the simplest possible way, you can follow these steps:

1. Install the .NET SDK on your Ubuntu server:

wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/$(lsb_release -rs)/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-7.0

2. Create a new directory for your app and navigate to it:

mkdir mywebapp
cd mywebapp

3. Create a new ASP.NET Core web app:

dotnet new web

4. Publish your app:

dotnet publish -c Release

5. Navigate to the published files:

cd bin/Release/net7.0/publish

6. Run your app:

dotnet mywebapp.dll

By default, this will start your web app on http://localhost:5000 and https://localhost:5001.

To make your app accessible from outside the server, you can modify the Program.cs file to listen on all interfaces:

app.Run("http://0.0.0.0:5000");

Then rebuild and republish your app.

This is the simplest way to serve a .NET web app on Ubuntu. However, for production use, you might want to consider using a reverse proxy like Nginx and setting up a service to keep your app running.

Would you like me to elaborate on any part of this process or explain how to set it up for production use?