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Solved: Unable to publish to Azure App Service from Visual Studio

02 March 2020

I recently created an Azure App Service and tried to publish a new ASP.NET Core web app using its publish profile downloaded. When i did that, I encountered an error:

web-deployment-task-failed

Web deployment task failed. (Could not connect to the remote computer ("[redacted].scm.azurewebsites.net"). On the remote computer, make sure that Web Deploy is installed and that the required process ("Web Management Service") is started. Lear more at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_DESTINATION_NOT_REACHABLE.)
The requested resource does not exist, or the request URL is incorrect.
Error details:
Could not connect to the remote computer ("[redacted].scm.azurewebsites.net"). On the remote computer, make sure that Web Deploy is installed and that the required process ("Web Management Service") is started. Lear more at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_DESTINATION_NOT_REACHABLE.
The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.

Here’s how to solve that error:

  1. Go to the app service on the Azure portal.
  2. Go to configuration.
  3. Add an app setting with name WEBSITE_WEBDEPLOY_USE_SCM and value false.
  4. Save changes.
  5. Download a new publish profile.

You should be able to do publish from Visual Studio now.