diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f5249bb70b..fb5e701d1c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ src/Umbraco.Web.UI/Umbraco/telemetrics-id.umb
 /src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/[Uu]mbraco/[Ll]ogs
 /src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/[Uu]mbraco/[Dd]ata/*
 /src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/[Uu]mbraco/[Mm]odels/*
+/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.json
+/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.Development.json
 
 
 src/Umbraco.Tests.Integration/umbraco/Data/
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.Development.json b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.Development.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 9cac2c3dd9..0000000000
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.Development.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "$schema" : "./umbraco/config/appsettings-schema.json",
-  "Serilog": {
-    "MinimumLevel": {
-      "Default": "Information",
-      "Override": {
-        "Examine.Lucene.Providers.LuceneIndex": "Debug",
-        "Examine.BaseIndexProvider": "Debug",
-        "Examine.Lucene.LoggingReplicationClient": "Debug",
-        "Examine.Lucene.ExamineReplicator": "Debug"
-      }
-    },
-    "WriteTo": [
-      {
-        "Name": "Async",
-        "Args": {
-          "configure": [
-            {
-              "Name": "Console"
-            }
-          ]
-        }
-      }
-    ]
-  },
-  "Umbraco": {
-    "CMS": {
-      "Examine": {
-        "LuceneDirectoryFactory": "TempFileSystemDirectoryFactory"
-      },
-      "Global": {
-        "Smtp": {
-          //"From": "your@email.here",
-          //"Host": "localhost",
-          // "Port": "25"
-        }
-      },
-      "Hosting": {
-        "Debug": true
-      },
-      "RuntimeMinification": {
-        "useInMemoryCache": true,
-        "cacheBuster": "Timestamp"
-      },
-      "RichTextEditor": {
-        "Commands": [
-          {
-            "Alias": "fullscreen",
-            "Name": "Full Screen",
-            "Mode": "All"
-          }
-        ],
-        "Plugins": [
-          "fullscreen"
-        ]
-      }
-    }
-  }
-}
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.json b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.json
deleted file mode 100644
index cef926fad2..0000000000
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "$schema": "./umbraco/config/appsettings-schema.json",
-  "ConnectionStrings": {
-    "umbracoDbDSN": ""
-  },
-  "Serilog": {
-    "MinimumLevel": {
-      "Default": "Information",
-      "Override": {
-        "Microsoft": "Warning",
-        "Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime": "Information",
-        "System": "Warning"
-      }
-    }
-  },
-  "Umbraco": {
-    "CMS": {
-      "Content": {
-        "Notifications": {
-          "Email": "your@email.here"
-        },
-        "MacroErrors": "Throw"
-      },
-      "Global": {
-        "DefaultUILanguage": "en-us",
-        "HideTopLevelNodeFromPath": true,
-        "UmbracoPath": "~/umbraco",
-        "TimeOutInMinutes": 20,
-        "UseHttps": false
-      },
-      "Hosting": {
-        "Debug": false
-      },
-      "KeepAlive": {
-        "DisableKeepAliveTask": false,
-        "KeepAlivePingUrl": "{umbracoApplicationUrl}/api/keepalive/ping"
-      },
-      "RequestHandler": {
-        "ConvertUrlsToAscii": "try"
-      },
-      "RuntimeMinification": {
-        "dataFolder": "umbraco/Data/TEMP/Smidge",
-        "version": "637642136775050602"
-      },
-      "Security": {
-        "KeepUserLoggedIn": false,
-        "UsernameIsEmail": true,
-        "HideDisabledUsersInBackoffice": false,
-        "AllowedUserNameCharacters": "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-._@+\\",
-        "UserPassword": {
-          "RequiredLength": 10,
-          "RequireNonLetterOrDigit": false,
-          "RequireDigit": false,
-          "RequireLowercase": false,
-          "RequireUppercase": false,
-          "MaxFailedAccessAttemptsBeforeLockout": 5
-        },
-        "MemberPassword": {
-          "RequiredLength": 10,
-          "RequireNonLetterOrDigit": false,
-          "RequireDigit": false,
-          "RequireLowercase": false,
-          "RequireUppercase": false,
-          "MaxFailedAccessAttemptsBeforeLockout": 5
-        }
-      },
-      "Tours": {
-        "EnableTours": true
-      },
-      "ModelsBuilder": {
-        "ModelsMode": "InMemoryAuto",
-        "Enable": true
-      }
-    }
-  }
-}