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ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is a popular open-source error logging library for ASP.NET applications. To configure ELMAH to send email notifications when an error occurs, you'll need to follow these steps:
Step 1: Install ELMAH
If you haven't already, install ELMAH in your ASP.NET project using NuGet:
Install-Package Elmah
Step 2: Configure ELMAH
In your web.config file, add the following configuration settings:
<configuration>
<elmah>
<!-- Enable error logging -->
<errorLog type="Elmah.ErrorLog, Elmah" />
<!-- Set the email settings -->
<mail from="[email protected]" to="[email protected]" subject="Error Occurred" />
</elmah>
</configuration>
Replace [email protected]
and [email protected]
with your actual email addresses.
Step 3: Configure the email settings
In the mail
section, you can customize the email settings as needed. For example, you can add a smtp
section to specify the SMTP server settings:
<mail from="[email protected]" to="[email protected]" subject="Error Occurred">
<smtp>
<network host="your_smtp_server" port="25" username="your_smtp_username" password="your_smtp_password" />
</smtp>
</mail>
Replace your_smtp_server
, your_smtp_username
, and your_smtp_password
with your actual SMTP server settings.
Step 4: Enable error logging
In your web.config file, add the following configuration setting to enable error logging:
<configuration>
<system.web>
<httpModules>
<add name="ErrorLog" type="Elmah.ErrorLogModule, Elmah" />
</httpModules>
</system.web>
</configuration>
This will enable ELMAH to log errors and send email notifications.
Step 5: Test the configuration
To test the configuration, simulate an error in your ASP.NET application. For example, you can add a try
-catch
block in your code-behind file:
try
{
// Simulate an error
throw new Exception("Test error");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// Log the error using ELMAH
Elmah.ErrorLog.GetDefault().Log(new Error(ex));
}
This should trigger an email notification with the error details.
That's it! With these steps, you should now have ELMAH configured to send email notifications when an error occurs in your ASP.NET application.