Getting this error because you are trying to Host Blazor Server on Docker
Choosing Production environment over Development Environment and specifying the certificate path used by Kestrel , will not give you ‘The path must be absolute’ and everything will work fine.
Why talking about Kestrel?
Switching to Production environment, Kestrel needs a true generated certificate. Which means not the certificate generated for localhost.
Running Blazor server on Docker
Running Blazor server on Docker, will give you a system argument exception telling you that “The path must be absolute’. Specifically running Blazor server using docker-compose will give you the error ‘The path must be absolute’.
But, running Blazor server by just execution the docker file you could not have this problem.
Docker-compose vs Docker file
Running Blazor server on Docker using docker-compose it is the preferred method. Because, you will be hosting Blazor Server, Nginx and database server.
With docker-compose you could deploy many application and service executing one simple command. which is “docker-compose up“.
docker-compose.override.yml file
When using docker. the environment variable, define if the application is in development or production.
Open docker-compose.override.yml file and set the environment variable.
- ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT to Production
version: '3.4'
services:
blazorapp:
environment:
- ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Production
- ASPNETCORE_URLS=https://+:443;http://+:80
ports:
- "80"
- "443"
volumes:
- ${APPDATA}/Microsoft/UserSecrets:/root/.microsoft/usersecrets:ro
- ${APPDATA}/ASP.NET/Https:/root/.aspnet/https:ro
- 2. Compile and Run the Application
After running the application a new error will appear because Kestrel wants to know the location of the certificate.
Open appsettings.json and add the path to your certificate. Use the same path.
But, what about the certificate name and the password.
"Kestrel": {
"Certificates": {
"Default": {
"Path": "/root/.aspnet/https/BlazorApp.pfx",
"Password": "6e40e96e-c7fd-4507-bdac-28094f982aa7"
}
}
},The certificate could be found at :
C:\Users\Zntoyn\AppData\Roaming\ASP.NET\Https
and for the password : you will find it in Manage User Secrets
Finally for testing: copy and paste the code below in your Index.razor file
@inject Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.IWebHostEnvironment hostingEnv
<p> ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT = @hostingEnv.EnvironmentName</p>Set the output to Release
and run the application. you will get the result telling, which environment the application use.
