How and where to define an environment variable on Azure

Question

I have an ASP.NET MVC web application deployed to Azure. I\'m reading my setting using the GetEnvironmentVariable(...) method.

The problem is that I can

Answer 1

I came across this question when facing the same problem myself. Well, just to give a clearer answer which I found at blog.elmah.io.

All you need to do is:

1. Include the new appsetting.{env}.json in the publishOptions in file project.json.
2. Go to Azure Portal and open the web application.
3. Select application settings.
4. Add an entry for ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT and set it to whatever you want.

That's it.