UseStaticFiles still needed with UseFileServer for wwwroot

[motohead400]

The documentation says UseFileServer is like calling UseStaticFiles, UseDefaultFiles, and UseDirectoryBrowser. This is not the behavior I encountered with .net core 2.2 (Web API application). I had to add a call to UseStaticFiles in order for files to be served from the wwwroot directory. I wasted over an hour on this.

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• Content: Static files in ASP.NET Core
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[Rick-Anderson]

That's not correct. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/50381816/502537

[motohead400]

I understand that's what it's SUPPOSED to do. I read the documentation, as was obvious in my post. However that is NOT the behavior I experienced. Without app.UseStaticFiles() in my code below, static files in the wwwroot do not get served. Maybe it has something to do with me adding an additional file provider?

[Rick-Anderson]

If you check the source you'll see it calls UseStaticFiles

[Rick-Anderson]

Try to repo the problem without the file provider.

[motohead400]

I did as you suggested and if I just call app.UseFileServer() without passing the FileServerOptions into it I'm able to remove the call to app.UseStaticFiles() and still have files served from the wwwroot directory as would be expected. So there seems to be a bug with using a file provider causing UseFileServer() to not allow files from the wwwroot directory to be served.

[Rick-Anderson]

@Tratcher is this expected? SHould we document this?

[Tratcher]

Yes, that's expected. UseStaticFiles/UseFileServer defaults to the file provider pointing at wwwroot. You can provide additional instances of UseStaticFiles/UseFileServer with other file providers to serve files from other locations.