.Net Core app built and located in /home/user/Smarthouse

Appliaction executable: Smarthouse is located in the folder above

# cd /home/user/Smarthouse

# chmod 755 Smarthouse

I am able to start app by running:

# ./Smarthouse

Application is running.

Create service file under /etc/systemd/system/

# vim /etc/systemd/system/smarthouse.service

Paste the following:

[Unit] 
Description=.NET Web API App running on Linux
Wants = network-online.target
After = network.target network-online.target
 
[Service] 
WorkingDirectory=/home/user/Smarthouse
ExecStart=/home/user/Smarthouse/Smarthouse
Restart=always
#Restart service after 10 seconds if crashes: RestartSec=10 
KillSignal=SIGINT 
SyslogIdentifier=dotnetSmarthouse 
User=www-data Environment=ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Production Environment=DOTNET_PRINT_TELEMETRY_MESSAGE=false 
Environment="DOTNET_BUNDLE_EXTRACT_BASE_DIR=/var/tmp/.net/bundling"

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

Save the file and run