Different url based on development environment with C# MVC

Question

I have two MVC web applications, a www.company.com and a solution.company.com

The website www.company.com include links to solution.company.com/Contact but how can I set

Answer 1

If for some reason you do not have an automated deploy system that lets you specify per-environment variables (like Octopus as mentioned in previous answers) there are a couple of other options.

1: Put your settings in a machine.config file for each environment and deploy that config to the appropriate servers.

2: Put your relationships in your config file:

then ask for the settings by hostname in your controller:

var contactLink = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[$"contact-for{Request.Url.Host}"]

and pass it to your model.

As you don't have different configurations to switch between, to test this approach you can change your hosts file (c:\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) to fake being each of the environments

127.0.0.1  localhost
127.0.0.1  qa.company.com
127.0.0.1  company.com
127.0.0.1  www.company.com

Then comment out or remove the non-localhost entries to connect to the real servers.