So, I have a multiproject application I'm struggling on deploying to Azure.

I have a Seed.cs file in my .Data project that uses a .json file in the project to seed the database. In development, this is what I was using to access the file and it worked fine:

var userData = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("../EFConnect.Data/UserSeedData.json"); 

In the Startup.cs file in the .API project I'm registering the Seed class as Transient in ConfigureServices() and calling it in the Configure() method.

However, when I deploy it - I get this error: Could not find a part of the path 'D:\home\site\wwwroot\EFConnect.Data\UserSeedData.json'

I've tried different combinations of pathing and tried putting the UserSeedData.json in the wwwroot folder. However, I can't figure out how to traverse the file structure in the deployed app or tell it how to navigate to the file.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you!