[SOLVED] Worker Service looking for appsettings.json in System32 folder instead of local folder

Worker Service looking for appsettings.json in System32 folder instead of local folder

I have a .Net core worker service, which I am running as a windows service. The service is using appsettings.json file for the config information. After installing the service using SC CREATE command, the service was failing.

In the event viewer I found the error it cannot find the file C:\Windows\System32\appsettings.json. My service files are placed in a different folder c:\Services\, instead of looking at that location, the service is looking for a the file in System32 folder.

The configuration registration is as below.

 var configBuilder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
                   .SetBasePath(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory())
                   .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json");
var configuration = configBuilder.Build();
            services.AddSingleton(configuration);

How can I make the service to look at the local folder?

Solution

That's because the current directory is changed to C:\Windows\System32 at runtime. You could get a relative path by Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(). For example:

var configBuilder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
    .SetBasePath( Path.GetDirectoryName( Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location))
    .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json");
var configuration = configBuilder.Build();