When trying to use GitHub actions to deploy code to an Azure Web App In my case this was quite simple, the Web App was configured to use .NET but my code was .NET Core 3.1. When I updated the Web App to use .NET Core then this worked fine.
Getting this error in a .NET Core web app? In this case we were trying to ping Zapier. Server Error in ‘/’ Application.The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.Exception Details: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.Stack Trace:[WebException: The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.]System.Net.WebClient.OpenRead(Uri... » read more
Getting this error in an Azure .NET Core Web App deployed via GitHub? An unhandled exception occurred while processing the request. DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path ‘D:\home\site\wwwroot\Templates\my_file.html’. System.IO.FileStream.ValidateFileHandle(SafeFileHandle fileHandle) DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path ‘D:\home\site\wwwroot\Templates\my_file.html’. System.IO.FileStream.ValidateFileHandle(SafeFileHandle fileHandle) System.IO.FileStream.CreateFileOpenHandle(FileMode mode, FileShare share, FileOptions options) System.IO.FileStream..ctor(string path, FileMode mode,... » read more
There’s a bunch of info on this already out there, but this is pretty specific – we have an existing set of Microsoft SQL Server databases on an AWS instance and I needed to connect to them in a new WebApp service. Here’s how I did it. This assumes you have an Azure account all... » read more
This isn’t an unusual error, you can find a lot of answers on Stack Overflow, for example. For me I was using a simple WebClient client = new WebClient(); With a send like this: Stream data = client.OpenRead(arguments);StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(data_to_send);s = reader.ReadToEnd(); And getting the error in the title. It said that the... » read more
I’m writing AMP versions of our news pages, and one of the problems is that the editors embed a lot of content, which just doesn’t work on AMP pages. Rather than write a whole new chunk of CMS I thought I’d see if we can work out a way to just hotswap them out with... » read more
After our server people did some MS SQL database restores from some old backups to find some data, some .NET websites we had on the server started showing an error. (note I couldn’t see the error and had to disable custom errors from remote only, see here http://tech.ralpharama.co.uk/1/viewing-errors-remote-machine-after-sql-restores-broke-sites Server Error in '/' Application. Cannot open database... » read more
Copy images between Amazon s3 buckets in memory only using Chilkat’s S3_DownloadBytes and S3_UploadBytes. Example classic ASP code. Function http_copy_bytes(contentType,bucketSourceName,bucketDestName,objectName,justFileName) Dim success, binaryImage ‘ Set up chilkat http Dim http : Set http = Server.CreateObject(“Chilkat.Http”) http_unlock(http) http.AwsAccessKey = AwsAccessKey ‘ your key http.AwsSecretKey = AwsSecretKey ‘ your key ... » read more
I had a nightmare recently with SVN refusing to update a file, then skipping a folder. Here’s what worked for me. SVN refused to update a particular file ‘template.html’ in a folder ‘newsletter’ deep in a tree. It just ignored it. Odd. I delete the file, template.html. Ran update again. Nothing, just says up to... » read more