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Micah
Micah

Reputation: 116180

Log4net Configuration Issue

Had something weird start happening to me today. I have an asp.net mvc app with log4net setup and everything had been working fine. Something must have changed somewhere and now nothing is getting logged (no log file is being created).

Here's my global.asax.cx

protected void Application_Start()
{
    log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator.Configure();
}

Here's my configuration in my web.config:

  <configSections>
    <section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net"/>
  </configSections>
  <log4net>
    <appender name="FileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
      <file value="c:\logs\api\ApiLog.txt" />
      <appendToFile value="true" />
      <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
        <conversionPattern value="%date - %message%newline" />
      </layout>
    </appender>
    <root>
      <level value="ALL" />
      <appender-ref ref="FileAppender" />
    </root>
  </log4net>

For some reason the c:\logs\api\apilog.txt file never gets created. However, if I change my application_start method to this it works fine:

log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator.Configure(new FileInfo("DirectPathToMy\web.config"));

Any ideas why calling Configure() is not finding the configuration in my web.config by default?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 9455

Answers (1)

Bj&#248;rn Otto Vasbotten
Bj&#248;rn Otto Vasbotten

Reputation: 1701

Don't know why your approach don't work but the issue is that you need to make sure it is activated in your project.

I usually put this as an assembly level reference in my AssemblyInfo.cs under /Properties:

[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator()]

Reference: http://logging.apache.org/log4net/release/manual/configuration.html

Upvotes: 2

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