c# - ASP.NET Core app - deploy as staging and read appsettings.staging

Question

I publish an ASP.NET Core 3.1 project to my VM wwwroot>whatever and remove all the appsettings.json files except for appsettings.production.json

It accepts that file, runs properly and reads the settings inside of it (connection string etc.) with no issues.

When I tried to do the same for the same project, hosted on the same machine, using a different AppPool etc. it doesn't accept the respective appsettings.staging.json file - I have to rename it as just appsettings.json for it to work.

Why is this?

It's an issue because I'm trying to use Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.IWebHostEnvironment in the app and I'm unsure how to publish the project as a "staging" release. I figured if I just left the appsettings.staging.json file in there only, that would do it, but I think I'm sorely mistaken.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65941187/asp-net-core-app-deploy-as-staging-and-read-appsettings-staging

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