Program.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using NLog.Web;

namespace BloggingEngine
{
    public class Program
    {
        //migrations start
            // public static void Main(string[] args) {
            //     CreateWebHostBuilder(args).Build().Run();
            // }

            // public static IWebHostBuilder CreateWebHostBuilder(string[] args) => WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args).UseStartup<Startup>();
            //     }
        //migrations end 

        public static void Main(string[] args)
            {
                
                var logger = NLog.Web.NLogBuilder.ConfigureNLog("nlog.config").GetCurrentClassLogger();
                try
                {
                    logger.Debug("init main");
                    CreateWebHostBuilder(args).Run(); 
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    //NLog: catch setup errors
                    logger.Error(ex, "Stopped program because of exception");
                    throw;
                }
                finally
                {
                    // Ensure to flush and stop internal timers/threads before application-exit (Avoid segmentation fault on Linux)
                    NLog.LogManager.Shutdown();
                }
            }

        public static IWebHost CreateWebHostBuilder(string[] args) =>
           WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
        .UseStartup<Startup>()
        .ConfigureLogging(logging =>
        {
            logging.ClearProviders();
            logging.SetMinimumLevel(Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.LogLevel.Trace);
        })
        .UseNLog()  // NLog: setup NLog for Dependency injection
        .Build();
    }
}