What does it mean for an ASP.NET Core app to run locally?

Question

User-177049091 posted

I am reading this tutorial: Host ASP.NET Core on Linux with Nginx https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/linux-nginx

And I am struggling to understand this sentence:

"Publish and copy over the app

Configure the app for a framework-dependent deployment.

If the app is run locally and isn't configured to make secure connections (HTTPS), adopt either of the following approaches:"

How else is an ASP.NET core app run but locally on a machine? That doesn't make sense to me. 

It looks like someone may have had the same question as me but the issue was closed as no issue: 
https://github.com/dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs/issues/12097

Answer 1

User753101303 posted

Hi,

Here locally means on the machine on which Nginx is installed. Not a Linux guy but you could certainly have Nginx on a dedicated machine and redirect http requests to other web servers where the ASP.NET app runs locally...

Answer 2

User-474980206 posted

ngnix is a reverse proxy. If It is hosted on the same machine as as the .net core app, you don’t need to use https, If ngnix is on a different machine you want to use https unless it’s a physically secure network.

Answer 3

User-177049091 posted

Thanks guys. That makes perfect sense, I just would not have worded it that way.