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I needed to dynamically configure log4net – outside of the web.config file. Here is my solution: 1. All that configuration of log4net in web.config? Forget it. 2. Create a separate log4net.config file (name it whatever you want), with the usual configuration content in it defining whatever appenders you want. For example if you want a rolling file log: <log4net> <appender name="RollingLogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.Roll... <param name="File" value="C:\\Temp\\mylog.txt" ...
I recently had the need to set the output path of the log files at runtime in log4net. For some reason up until now I had never attempted to accomplish this. As corporate permissions are more and more restrictive I found the need to set the FileAppender.File path at runtime to a location within the users profile. It turns out accomplishing this task is quite simple. public static void Initialize(string logDirectory) { //get the current logging repository for this application ILoggerRepository repository ...
I was working with log4net recently and had put a lot of the configuration information in the web.config file for an ASP.NET 2.0 web site. Ideally, this was not what I wanted because I want to be able to change the configuration of the log4net without recycling the web application (a side effect of changing the web.config file). After spending a fair amount of time reading out on the web--a lot of people said it can't be done. It took me piecing together multiple settings to finally get this to work. ...