Viewing ELMAH logs through the web interface on a Live application

Question

I have included elmah.mvc into an Asp.Net MVC application for logging exceptions and custom error logs. It is working fully as intended and I can view the logs within my ELMAH_Error table using a SQL Server, and as well from the web interface through local host URL(http://localhost:20086/elmah).

My question is: How, if possible, can I view my logs through the web interface on a live site and not "http://localhost:20086/elmah". I want to be able to view the Logging information when necessary from any computer. I have implemented Roles and Authentication, so I should be able to go to the correct URL, login with the appropriate credentials, then view the logs.... right? Is this possible??

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 15 '15 at 17:43

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No problem. You can use ASP.NET authentication to secure your logs. Basically you want something like this:

<location path="elmah.axd">
    <system.web>
        <httpHandlers>
            <add verb="POST,GET,HEAD"
                 path="elmah.axd"
                 type="Elmah.ErrorLogPageFactory, Elmah" />
        </httpHandlers>
        <authorization>
            <allow roles="admin" />
            <deny users="*" />
        </authorization>
    </system.web>
    <system.webServer>
        <handlers>
            <add name="ELMAH"
                 verb="POST,GET,HEAD"
                 path="elmah.axd"
                 type="Elmah.ErrorLogPageFactory, Elmah"
                 preCondition="integratedMode" />
        </handlers>
    </system.webServer>
</location>

There's some more details in this ELMAH Tutorial.

It looks like you're using the Elmah.MVC package. With this package you have another option:

<add key="elmah.mvc.requiresAuthentication" value="true" />
<add key="elmah.mvc.allowedRoles" value="admin" />

answered Dec 15 '15 at 17:43

ThomasArdal

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Hi, ThomasArdal I know about the authorization/roles and I have already implemented this. What I am trying to figure out is how to view the ELMAH web interface to view the logs. I can only do it from local host. Can I do this through my live site, because http://tc-solutions.dk/elmah brings me a 404 error – chri3g91 Dec 16 '15 at 12:41
Did you set the allowRemoteAccess attribute to true? If not, look in the tutorial. – ThomasArdal Dec 16 '15 at 18:25
Yes, It is working fine as intended. I miss understood something in the tutorial, but thanks for the help. – chri3g91 Feb 13 '16 at 15:53
Could you elaborate on what you misunderstand. I will make sure to make it more clear. – ThomasArdal Feb 14 '16 at 17:56
Shouldn't this be the accepted answer? – Francesco Gallarotti Jun 16 '16 at 09:24
I would appreciate that at least :) – ThomasArdal Jun 16 '16 at 10:02

Viewing ELMAH logs through the web interface on a Live application

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