Publish an Angular with .NET CORE app to IIS on AWS Cloud EC2 instance
I faced a few challenges while publishing my application(Front end on Angular 13, Backend is .NET CORE 6) to IIS on AWS EC2 instance using Custom Identity. So I thought of sharing this post which will help you to fix the issue quickly. It is a straight forward process to publish an application to IIS without using custom identity and many are already aware of this process. When we create an Application Pool by default it uses Application Pool Identity. In many cases we can not use Application Pool Identity. For example if your application is accessing web share or network share then your application needs to have required permission to access these shares. In this case you will have to create a Service Account and provide necessary permission to your Service Account to access these shares. Then you need to use this Service Account as Identity instead of Application Pool Identity to set up your application. However if you want to use another identity then we have to make sure your new i...