Generic Host config root

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
backend

Research direction

The issue names the generic host, its content root, configuration files, and application resources but no source file, test, or API proposal. Start by tracing how the generic host loads appsettings.json relative to the content root; done requires a decided API and separate configuration location covering the Linux and container use cases.

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Description

api-suggestion area-Extensions-Hosting

Description

The generic host has the content root where it loads assets from. These assets fall into two separate categories:

  • configuration files (appsettings.json)
  • application resources (razor files, ...)

This is a request to be able to set the location for configuration files separate from the content root.

Use-Cases

For example, when placing a generic host app according to the Linux File Hierarchy, the config files can be under /etc/<app-name> and static assets under /usr/share/<app-name>.

Or when deploying an application using a container image, the config root would be a volume that enables changing and persisting settings.

API

No proposal yet.

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