Change Serilog logging file path to a higher level directory - .net-5

Question

I am trying to change the location of where Serilog files get written to.
It will write to a directory at the root of the project or below (example, StructuredLogs/file-here.txt), but any time I attempt to use an env variable or write to an absolute file path or even relative file path, it will only write to the root directory and replace / or \ (properly escaped) with :
The settings are in the appSettings.json as such:
"Serilog": {
"Using": [],
"Properties": {
"ApplicationName": "Test API"
},
"MinimumLevel": {
"Default": "Debug",
"Override": {
"Microsoft": "Debug",
"Microsoft.TestApi": "Debug",
"System": "Debug"
}
},
"Enrich": [ "FromLogContext", "WithMachineName", "WithProcessId", "WithProcessName", "WithThreadId" ],
"WriteTo": [
{ "Name": "Console" },
{
"Name": "File",
"Args": {
"path": "D:\\repo\\micro-services\\Apis\\structured-logs\\logs.txt",
"rollingInterval": "Day",
"outputTemplate": "{Timestamp:G} {Message}{NewLine:1}{Exception:1}"
}
},
{
"Name": "File",
"Args": {
"path": "D:\\repo\\micro-services\\Apis\\structured-logs\\logs.json",
"rollingInterval": "Day",
"formatter": "Serilog.Formatting.Json.JsonFormatter, Serilog"
}
},
...
I have tried:
Moving the solution to my local computer from a portable drive: C:/ vs D:/
Ensuring it was running with elevated permissions of Visual Studio 2022
changing to the various types of ways I could get to a different directory (relative, absolute, env variable, etc.)
forward-slash vs back-slash
none have worked.
Looks vaguely familiar to a character set encoding issue of some sort, but not sure.
Any thoughts as ideally I would have a relative path?

Answer 1

I use these at program.cs
the log file was saved at parent dictionary
Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration() .WriteTo.Console() .WriteTo.File("../log-.txt", rollingInterval: RollingInterval.Day) .CreateLogger();