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asp.net-corestatic
Yiannis Manatos
Yiannis Manatos

Reputation: 13

ASP.NET Core 3.1 static files cannot be accessed

I have some JSON data-configuration files that I wish to have them online as static files and read them upon my web-service initialization. So, I wish to access them internally from my code, not to make them public to external access.

Following the instructions (below) I placed them inside a /wwwroot/Static folder and used app.UseStaticFiles(); in Startup.Configure(), then I try to read them via both HTML and C# code using the "~/Static/*.json" notation but it does not work from C# code.

When locally, I am getting error: DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path '...\Repos\VS2019\my-project-folder\~\Static\filename.json'.

So, the ~ symbol is not translated to wwwroot folder name.

When online (as Azure App Service) I am getting: HTTP ERROR 500

What I have done wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4204

Answers (1)

Always_a_learner
Always_a_learner

Reputation: 1304

Use HostingEnvironment to get physical location:

public HomeController(IHostingEnvironment hostingEnvironment)
    {
        string data= System.IO.File.ReadAllText(hostingEnvironment.WebRootPath.ToString()+ @"\Static\test.json");
    }

if Application is web Api then use ContentRoot instead of WebRootPath.

Upvotes: 0

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