ASP.NET Core hosting environment variable ignored

Question

I have two web sites on my staging server, and both are ASP.NET Core sites that run in IIS. I have set the environment variable ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT to

Answer 1

From a cmd window, run net stop /y was && net start w3svc.

Source: ASP.NET Core Docs -> Use multiple environments in ASP.NET Core

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Note: Restarting IIS via right click-> stop -> start in IIS Manager will NOT work.