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Stanfrancisco
Stanfrancisco

Reputation: 352

NLog file not writing

I've been trying to build an app that will use NLog to log a file. The code is really basic, but not seeming to work. Anyone have any ideas? I've set the correct things to "copy always" as well, like in this question. NLog doen't work on IIS

Code below.

MAIN (Including using statements to show I am actually using them)

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Net;
using System.Configuration;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
using NLog;

class Program
{

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var logger = LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger();
        logger.Debug("xxxx");
    }

NLog.Config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<targets>
<target name="file" xsi:type="File"
    layout="${longdate} ${logger} ${message}"
    fileName="${basedir}/log/logfile.txt" />
</targets>

<rules>
    <logger name="*" minlevel="Debug" writeTo="file" />
</rules>
</nlog>

App.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration> 
  <startup> 
      <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.5" />
  </startup>
<runtime>
  <assemblyBinding>
    <dependentAssembly>
      <assemblyIdentity name="NLog" publicKeyToken="5120e14c03d0593c"   culture="neutral" />
    <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-3.2.1.0" newVersion="3.2.1.0" />
  </dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
</runtime>

</configuration>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 8382

Answers (3)

Jabez
Jabez

Reputation: 905

If you are trying to debug from Visual studio, try to run VS in elevated account ( run as administrator ) and then start debugging. This way NLog will have enough permissions to create log file.

Also use createDirs=true for each target section in nlog config file to automatically create missing folders in the log file path that is provided in the target section.

Upvotes: 0

Mihai Caracostea
Mihai Caracostea

Reputation: 8466

Check whether your process has write access to the ${basedir} location. Also, if your application is running from a special folder, make sure the process is running elevated.

Upvotes: 1

bechbd
bechbd

Reputation: 6341

Are you getting a valid logger back from the GetCurrentClassLogger call?

Have you tried turning on Internal Debugging as shown here: https://github.com/NLog/NLog/wiki/Internal-Logging

This should point you in the correct direction as to why your log files are not being created

Upvotes: 1

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