Christian, Out of curiosity, how and where are you setting the configuration file path?
-Ross 2009/8/6 thierry lach <[email protected]> > One good reason for using an external file would be that the file can be > changed without restarting the web application, which would happen when > updating web.config. > > > > > > [image: i'm] EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD > Join me<http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=EML_WLHM_GreaterGood> > > ------------------------------ > 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 > > >
