Asp.Net Core Web API app: how to change listening address?

Question

I write simple Asp.Net Core WebAPI 2.0 application, it works on my local machine. But i want to deploy it to server. So, i do it.

My system:

Ubuntu 1         


        

Answer 1

This is configured by Server urls host configuration

Indicates the IP addresses or host addresses with ports and protocols that the server should listen on for requests.
Key: urls
Type: string
Default: http://localhost:5000
Set using: UseUrls
Environment variable: ASPNETCORE_URLS

Set to a semicolon-separated (;) list of URL prefixes to which the server should respond.

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It is also possible to set URL using command line arguments. For example:

dotnet run --urls=http://0.0.0.0:5001

but this doesn't work out of the box for old versions of ASP.NET Core (depends on whether this fix applied to used version or not).

A workaround for old versions based on fact that you always can set host settings directly via .UseConfiguration method:

var config = new ConfigurationBuilder().AddCommandLine(args).Build();

return WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
        .UseConfiguration(config)

Note, the same idea may be used to read setting value from any other configuration source, like configuration file for example.