How and where to define an environment variable on Azure

asp.net-mvc azure model-view-controller environment-variables
Jaroslaw Stadnicki picture Jaroslaw Stadnicki · Jan 5, 2016 · Viewed 69k times · Source

I have an ASP.NET MVC web application deployed to Azure. I'm reading my setting using the GetEnvironmentVariable(...) method.

The problem is that I can't find a way to define this environment variable in Azure Portal. Where can I do that?

I don't want to have this stuff in a file. Data that will be there are credentials.

Answer

Xiaomin Wu picture Xiaomin Wu · Jan 5, 2016

I assume you are using Azure App Service (formerly known as Azure Websites).

To define your own environment variable, click to your site → All Settings → Application settings:

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Add an app setting in the "App settings" section:

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You can verify the value from the debug console.

Going to https://{your site name}.scm.azurewebsites.net/DebugConsole:

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