How to set ASP.NET 5 environment variables on production environment

Question

In Visual Studio 2015 you set the following variable in project properties: ASPNET_ENV. If you set it to development then you can use:

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Answer 1

This is how to set the environment variable on Windows:

1. On your server, right click 'Computer' or 'My Computer' and click on 'Properties'.
2. Go to 'Advanced System Settings'.
3. Click on 'Environment Variables' in the Advanced tab.
4. Add a new System Variable with the name ASPNET_ENV (RC1) or ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT (RC2, RTM and Above) and a value of Production, Staging, Development or whatever you want.
5. A reboot of your site may be required.

See also this answer for how to read the environment variable from gulpfile.js.