Manifest and Path Manifest XML hidden Errors

mlnews

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 and the HTML Client (not Sliverlight) for Lightswitch to deploy a very simple website and when I go to deploy, I keep getting this error:

Web deployment task failed. (Object of type 'manifest' and path 'manifest xml hidden' cannot be created.)

scottalanmiller

Check the ProjectName.SourceManifest.xml file.

And look for this line: <appHostConfig path="Default Web Site/ProjectName" />

That needs to be populated and if you are deploying fresh might be missing. You might need to manually create the dummy site before deploying the new code.

http://www.iis.net/learn/publish/troubleshooting-web-deploy/web-deploy-error-codes#ERROR_EXCEPTION_WHILE_CREATING_OBJECT

scottalanmiller

This site: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19669796/visual-studio-2013-web-deploy-fails

Also mentions this...

And solved by removing that section with MsBuild parameters: /p:IncludeIisSettings=false /p:IncludeAppPool=false

garak0410

@scottalanmiller said in Manifest and Path Manifest XML hidden Errors:

Check the ProjectName.SourceManifest.xml file.

And look for this line: <appHostConfig path="Default Web Site/ProjectName" />

That needs to be populated and if you are deploying fresh might be missing. You might need to manually create the dummy site before deploying the new code.

http://www.iis.net/learn/publish/troubleshooting-web-deploy/web-deploy-error-codes#ERROR_EXCEPTION_WHILE_CREATING_OBJECT

Interesting in that ProjectName.SourceManifest.xml doesn't exist in my project folder or on the website folder on the webserver.

So if I create a ProjectName.SourceManifest.xml file, where should it go?

garak0410

Still trying the suggestions listed here...still having issues...mainly because I don't have a ProjectName.SourceManifest.xml...

scottalanmiller

Does this help at all?

http://www.asp.net/web-forms/overview/deployment/web-deployment-in-the-enterprise/building-and-packaging-web-application-projects

thwr

@mlnews said in Manifest and Path Manifest XML hidden Errors:

Posting for @garak0410

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 and the HTML Client (not Sliverlight) for Lightswitch to deploy a very simple website and when I go to deploy, I keep getting this error:

Web deployment task failed. (Object of type 'manifest' and path 'manifest xml hidden' cannot be created.)

Does the target exist at all?

This may give you some hints: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19669796/visual-studio-2013-web-deploy-fails

It's usually just a wrong path, for example when you copy your web project to another machine and try to deploy/run it from there.

Edit: Weird, I didn't see any other answers on Android 6 when I wrote this...