Hi,

I'm new to .NET Core and the 'deployment' side of Umbraco 10. I'd like to deploy an Umbraco 10 site to a client VM. I've created a publish profile (FTP version as that's all the host server supports) and deployed the files up without any issues. However, I need to update the db connection string. I gather this should be done by using an environment-specific appsettings.json file for production, but I'm struggling to find any explanations/documentation on exactly how to do this without a good previous understanding of environment variables etc.

At the moment I have a relatively 'vanilla' Umbraco instance, so it comes with a properties/launchSettings.json file, populated with the following:

{
  "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/launchsettings.json",
  "iisSettings": {
    "windowsAuthentication": false,
    "anonymousAuthentication": true,
    "iisExpress": {
      "applicationUrl": "http://localhost:46505",
      "sslPort": 44358
    }
  },
  "profiles": {
    "IIS Express": {
      "commandName": "IISExpress",
      "launchBrowser": true,
      "environmentVariables": {
        "ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development"
      }
    },
    "Umbraco.Web.UI": {
      "commandName": "Project",
      "dotnetRunMessages": true,
      "launchBrowser": true,
      "applicationUrl": "https://localhost:44358;http://localhost:46505",
      "environmentVariables": {
        "ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development"
      }      
    }
  }
}

Do I need to add a 'production' or 'release'(?) setting in there? If so, is there an example as it's not obvious to me which parts to replicate and what things should be called?

Then how about appsettings.{environment}.json? Should I create a production or release version of that? (Which?) If so, does anyone have an example of what it should contain in order to override the local connection setting with a production one?

If anyone could shed any light on this it would be much appreciated. I'm sure it's easy when you know how! 😅