Structure of the appsettings.json file

{
  "ConnectionStrings": {
    "DefaultConnection": "server=127.0.0.1;port=3306;database=db;uid=user;pwd=<user_password>",
    "Provider": "MySql"
  },

  "ServerSettings": {
    "ServerUrl": "https://<you_domain_name>"
  },

  "Logging": {
    "LogLevel": {
      "Default": "Debug",
      "Microsoft": "Warning",
      "Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime": "Information"
    }
  },

  "AllowedHosts": "*"
}

Replace the following settings in this file with your own:

• <user_password> - Password for the user on MySQL server

• <you_domain_name> - you fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of your HES site (example: hideez.example.com)

If you use MS SQL instead of MySQL, the connection string should look like this:

"ConnectionStrings": {
    "DefaultConnection": "Server=127.0.0.1,1433;Initial Catalog=db;User ID=user;Password=password",
    "Provider": "MsSql"
  },

Replace the following settings in this file with your own:

• password - Password for the user on MS SQL server

Important note: by default, .Net Core uses ports 5000 and 5001. Therefore, if only one domain is running on the server, port numbers can be skipped. But if it is supposed to run a few sites on one computer, then it is necessary to specify different ports for each site in json file.

For example, for a site to listen to ports 6000 and 6001, after "AllowedHosts": "*" add the following (via comma):

,
 "Kestrel": {
    "Endpoints": {
      "Http": {
        "Url": "http://localhost:6000"
      },
      "Https": {
        "Url": "https://localhost:6001"
      }
    }
  }

The basic format of a connection string includes a series of keyword/value pairs separated by semicolons. The equal sign (=) connects each keyword and its value. To include values that contain a semicolon, single-quote character, or double-quote character, the value must be enclosed in double quotation marks. If the value contains both a semicolon and a double-quote character, the value can be enclosed in single quotation marks. The single quotation mark is also useful if the value starts with a double-quote character. Conversely, the double quotation mark can be used if the value starts with a single quotation mark. If the value contains both single-quote and double-quote characters, the quotation mark character used to enclose the value must be doubled every time it occurs within the value.