Where do logs go when running ASP.NET Core on IIS 7.5?

Question

I\'m posting this and answering it, because this left me stumped for a very long time. I have the following line in my web.config:

Answer 1

According to the provided stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout" in your web.config file, the logs directory should be created next to the web.config, inside the publish directory.

To create the logs subdirectory you can use the approach described in the ASP.NET Core directory structure.

Just paste this at the end of your published project's *.csproj file

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During the publish process after this change the logs directory should be created if it does not exist in the output directory.

If you run for example: dotnet publish --output you should find the logs directory inside the