How to publish ASP.NET Core app to ftp server

Question

Visual Studio publish only supports importing web deploy.

Is there a workaround?

Answer 1

Visual Studio publishing profiles supports pure FTP as a target. It does not support SFTP however.

These are the options you should see:

• Web Deploy
• Web Deploy Package
• FTP (does not support SFTP unfortunately)
• File System (UNC or local path)

Update since noted ASP.NET 5

With the details that the project is ASP.NET 5 / vNext, at this time, FTP and Web Deploy are not supported yet in the UI of Visual Studio. There's a blog out there following these steps to import an FTP profile:

1. Open notepad and create a publishing profile to save to your file system.

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <publishData> <publishProfile profileName="FTP" publishMethod="FTP" publishUrl="ftp://ftpaddress" userName="username" userPWD="password" destinationAppUrl="http://wwwaddress" /> </publishData>

2. Select "Import" from the publish targets and import the publishing profile.

Link to Blog: http://blog.discountasp.net/publishing-an-asp-net-5-vnext-application/