Can I move appsettings.json out of the app directory?

Question

I want to put my appsettings.json file outside of the web folder so that I can avoid storing it in source control. How can I do this?

Answer 1

It doesn't like relative paths, it seems. But, this works...

public static IWebHost BuildWebHost(string[] args) =>
    WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
        .ConfigureAppConfiguration((hostingContext, config) =>
        {
            if (!hostingContext.HostingEnvironment.IsDevelopment())
            {
                var parentDir = Directory.GetParent(hostingContext.HostingEnvironment.ContentRootPath);
                var path = string.Concat(parentDir.FullName, "\\config\\appsettings.json");

                config.AddJsonFile(path, optional: false, reloadOnChange: true);
            }
        })
        .UseStartup<Startup>()
        .Build();

So, it's another settings file on top of the sources added by default.