Best practice to include log4Net external config file in ASP.NET

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I have seen at least two ways to include an external log4net config file in an ASP.NET web application:

Having the following attribute in your AssemblyInfo.cs file:

[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "Log.config", Watch = true)]

Calling the XmlConfigurator in the Global.asax.cs:

protected void Application_Start()
{
    XmlConfigurator.Configure(new FileInfo("Log.config"));
}

What would be the best practice to do it?

log4net asp.net c#
2 Answers

I was dissatisfied with the "magic" configuration approach, because I wanted to specify my configuration in a path with an environment variable (%PUBLIC%\MyApp\MySettings.config).

So instead, I have this in my app.config:

<add key="MyLog4NetConfigFile" value="%PUBLIC%\MyApp\MySettings.config"/>

And do this to set my log4net configuration:

var configFile = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("MyLog4NetConfigFile");
if( !string.IsNullOrEmpty(configFile))
{
    configFile = Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables(configFile);
    XmlConfigurator.Configure(new FileInfo(configFile));
}
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