ASP .NET Core Website Location on Ubuntu - Kestrel Loads Website from One Folder but Not Another With Same Permissions and Owner

Hello

I have been experimenting with setting up ASP .NET Core websites in Ubuntu and they load correctly with Kestrel if located at:

/var/aspnetcore/SITENAME/aspnetcore

However they do not work if located here:

/home/SITENAME/aspnetcore

In both cases I set the owner of the folder and everything below to the www-data account and assigned 755 permissions:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data aspnetcore

sudo chmod -R 755 aspnetcore

When checking the status of the error it is:

(code=exited, status=200/CHDIR)

Is it possible to run an .NET Core website from the home folder? Is it something to do with permissions of the home folder itself?

Thanks
Robin