ASP.Net Core 2.1 ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT value not reflecting

Question

I have ASP.Net Core 2.1 API app. It is supposed to host in 4 environments.

1. Development
2. Testing
3. Staging
4. Production

When running the app in local from Visual Studio, the app is rightly fetching the ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT variable & accordingly fetching the values from appsettings.Development.json

But when the same deployed in a VM, it's not fetching the environment & looking for settings (like Connection string etc.) from appsettings.json.

What else settings I need to do so?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You should be setting System Environment Variable rather than User Variable.