Logging to file from an asp.net application: how to???

[Bob Rock]

Hello,

I'd like to log to a file from an asp.net application but it seems that the
user under which asp.net applications run has very limited permissions.
Apart giving the user greater permissions, is there any other solution to
allow logging to file system???

Also I'd like to write to the bin or root asp.net application folder, how do
I get this folder dynamically from the application itself???

Bob Rock

[Craig Deelsnyder]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:50:30 +0200, Bob Rock
<no***************************@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'd like to log to a file from an asp.net application but it seems that
the
user under which asp.net applications run has very limited permissions.
Apart giving the user greater permissions, is there any other solution to
allow logging to file system???

Also I'd like to write to the bin or root asp.net application folder,
how do
I get this folder dynamically from the application itself???

Bob Rock

Either write to one of your web app's folders (recommended), or give the
aspnet user write access to whatever folder you are going to write to. To
find a local folder's path, use Server.MapPath("./bin"), etc.

May I also recommend using log4net for logging? It's synonymous to Java's
log4j, and works pretty well OOTB. So you don't have to write a bunch of
logging infrastructure.

--
Craig Deelsnyder
Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET

[S. Justin Gengo]

Bob,

Recently there was an article in Visual Studio.Net Magazine on how to
impersonate a user selectively for say, writing to a file.

I think it's what you need. You can find the article here:

http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/2004_05/...ne/columns/qa/

--
Sincerely,

S. Justin Gengo, MCP
Web Developer / Programmer

www.aboutfortunate.com

"Out of chaos comes order."
Nietzsche
"Bob Rock" <no***************************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello,

I'd like to log to a file from an asp.net application but it seems that the user under which asp.net applications run has very limited permissions.
Apart giving the user greater permissions, is there any other solution to
allow logging to file system???

Also I'd like to write to the bin or root asp.net application folder, how do I get this folder dynamically from the application itself???

Bob Rock

[Marty U.]

Bob Rock wrote:

Hello,

I'd like to log to a file from an asp.net application but it seems that the
user under which asp.net applications run has very limited permissions.
Apart giving the user greater permissions, is there any other solution to
allow logging to file system???

Also I'd like to write to the bin or root asp.net application folder, how do
I get this folder dynamically from the application itself???

Bob Rock

To get the virtual root path try HttpRequest.ApplicationPath this will
provide the http:// path and not the d:\InetPub\wwwroot\myapplication.

You may also try Request.ApplicationPath it has been a few days since I
did this and I'm not for sure which I used!:-)
Marty U.

[Natty Gur]

Hi,

Just don't write to your app bin folder. Changes in bin folder files
monitor and cause application to restart.

Natty Gur[MVP]

blog : http://weblogs.asp.net/ngur
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