Where am I supposed to write ASP.NET Serilog applications logs to?

Customer21753

I am using ASP.NET Core and Serilog File Sink. Where am I supposed to write me logs to? Currently I write them to wwwroot\logs folder but that is not ideal.

MonsterASPNET

Hello @Customer21753,
first I apologize for late reply. If you have Premium plan, it is better to open Support ticket directly in our Control Panel.

Don't worry - writing logs into wwwroot\logs is common behavior for many ASP.NET Core applications. ASP.NET Core include by default mechanisms that prevent these files from being accessed via HTTP requests, so users cannot download or view them directly from web. Because of this, storing logs in wwwroot\logs is generally fine.

If you want to be extra safe, you can store logs in \private folder outside of wwwroot. Files outside of wwwroot cannot be accessed via HTTP at all.

Example in .NET / ASP.NET Core:

var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);

Console.WriteLine("Content root: " + builder.Environment.ContentRootPath);
Console.WriteLine("Web root: " + builder.Environment.WebRootPath);

var app = builder.Build();

// private path folder outside wwwroot
var privateFolderPath = Path.Combine(builder.Environment.ContentRootPath, "..", "Private");

Console.WriteLine("Private folder path: " + privateFolderPath);

In this example \private folder is outside of wwwroot, so it cannot be accessed through HTTP requests.