'Bad Gateway' error when loading aspnetcore RC2 default website project

Question

I am attempting to run the default ASP.NET Core Web Application (Web Application Template in VS 2015) via IIS.

I have followed the instructions from the docs here eg set

Answer 1

Ok I figured my issue out. I am pointing the physical path in IIS to the unpublished Visual Studio project root directory. This works in previous versions of .net (ie non dotnet core aspnet projects) but doesnt now.

If you really want this to work then you have to publish your app to a temporary folder and copy the Microsoft.AspNetCore.* binaries back into the bin\Debug\ folder along with the refs and runtimes folders