WebApi works locally but when published It fails

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I have a webapi which works fine locally with Postman - but when published to remote server postman returns:

"System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): The network path was not found"

The WebAPi accepts POST only, and connects to a Remote Database via EF 6.

Any ideas what is wrong, why it works locally but not remotely?

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c#entity-frameworkasp.net-web-apipostman
Because your database connection string points to local server? – tia
@tia make your comment the answer and you will get the points! I cannot believe I was being so dumb - I was using an internal IP and not the public! Cheers! – Dave Gordon

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The error message is quite general, but it seems like your database server is not reachable from the remote server. I guess it might be that your connection string currently points to your local server instead of production server.