Suggested approaches for file paths when running on various platforms (Linux/Windows)

[Erick Thompson]

Hey,

I have a number of applications that log to file (usually rolling file). These applications are .net core, and will be deployed to both Windows and Linux containers. The application works great, but I'm not sure how to deal with file paths. For example, I want Windows to log "c:\logs\foo" and on Linux "\var\logs\foo". What is the suggested approach to dealing with platform specific file paths? 

Thanks,

Erick

[nblum...@nblumhardt.com]

Hi Erick,

Writing the path into a config file (e.g. appsettings.json), or passing it as an environment variable, is the way to go here.

Hope this helps!

Nick

[Erick Thompson]

Thanks Nick, that makes sense. 

I'm going to test the generation of filenames in Serilog (e.g., Rolling file). Hopefully it will just work out of the box :)

Thanks!