Hi There, I understand you desire to have a central directory for log files - but surely if they are all going to live in the \Configs dir, then this directory will always be in the same place on each machine? Other than that, I think unless you want to have a seperate utility to manage your logfiles for you, then you will probably need to set the path in the code :( Raszka - sometimes it is very useful to hold some configuration in an external xml file.
Subject: RE: relative path for config file Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 08:14:47 +0200 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Hi, you can try this: <add key="log4net.Config.File" value="~\configs\log4net.config" /> but I'm not sure if this works. What you are using external config file? log4net config can be written directly in web.config. RR Od: Christian Chenier [mailto:[email protected]] Odesláno: 5. srpna 2009 18:16 Komu: [email protected] Předmět: relative path for config file Hi, I use log4net in a C# web application and am having problems configuring it to use a relative path to point to the location of a configuration file external to web.config. In web.config, if I use <add key="log4net.Config.File" value="C:\somePath\log4net.config" /> all works fine. However, I would like to avoid having to hard-code the physical path and would like to specify something like <add key="log4net.Config.File" value="configs\log4net.config" /> where the configs directory is located in the same directory as web.config (the AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory). However this does not work (I no longer get anything output to my log file when I make that change). I understand that one can programmatically construct a full path from the base directory, but there is surely a way to specify a relative path directly in the web.config file? I have tried modifying the string using leading slash (and backslash), etc. to no avail, and could not find a solution anywhere. Does anyone know how to do this? (As an aside, using a relative path to specify the output file name within the <appender> works fine, relative to the base directory.) Thanks, Chris Chenier _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Messenger: Happy 10-Year Anniversary-get free winks and emoticons. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/157562755/direct/01/
