Elmah giving error code 500 on production, but not on old host/local development

Question

I can't figure out how to get Elmah working on my production host for my Asp.net MVC project. Locally and on my last host, everything is setup correctly and going to /Elmah.axd successfully brings up the error logger. However, on production host it is giving me a 500 error code. I don't know what else to do to debug the issue. My web.config looks like:

<configSections>
  <sectionGroup name="elmah">
    <section name="security" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.SecuritySectionHandler, Elmah" />
    <section name="errorLog" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.ErrorLogSectionHandler, Elmah" />
    <section name="errorMail" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.ErrorMailSectionHandler, Elmah" />
    <section name="errorFilter" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.ErrorFilterSectionHandler, Elmah" />
  </sectionGroup>
</configSections>

<system.webServer>
  <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
  <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">
    <add name="ErrorLog" type="Elmah.ErrorLogModule, Elmah" />
  </modules>
  <handlers>
    <add name="Elmah" verb="POST,GET,HEAD" path="elmah.axd" type="Elmah.ErrorLogPageFactory, Elmah" />
  </handlers>
</system.webServer>

<system.web>
  <httpModules>
    <add name="ErrorLog" type="Elmah.ErrorLogModule, Elmah" />
  </httpModules>
  <httpHandlers>
    <add verb="POST,GET,HEAD" path="elmah.axd" type="Elmah.ErrorLogPageFactory, Elmah" />
  </httpHandlers>
</system.web>

<elmah>
  <errorLog type="Elmah.SqlErrorLog, Elmah" connectionStringName="MyDbContext" />
</elmah>

Which version of IIS is your localhost and production web server? — Ahmed Magdy, Apr 16 '11 at 21:39
It's IIS7 (maybe 7.5). not sure how to find out any more detailed for my virtual host (and my remote login capabilities are failing at the moment) — KallDrexx, Apr 16 '11 at 22:09

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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You might forget to update RegisterRoutes with the following rule:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
     routes.IgnoreRoute("elmah.axd");
}

Those links might help you http://code.google.com/p/elmah/wiki/MVC and How to get ELMAH to work with ASP.NET MVC [HandleError] attribute?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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answered Apr 16 '11 at 21:44

Ahmed Magdy

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Nope, didn't help. My routing already had a step to ignore routes to `.axd` files – KallDrexx Apr 16 '11 at 22:01

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 18 '11 at 17:33

The event log should be able to give you more information on what the error 500 is. Obviously the best thing would be to attach a debugger to the IIS instance but I'm guessing that's not possible!

Another thing to check will be whether both servers are x86 or x64, as even though ELMAH is platform independent some of it's dependencies aren't.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 10 '19 at 03:31

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Here is how you debug a 500 error on IIS:

In IE GOTO: Internet options -> Advanced -> Disable: Show friendly HTTP error messages

After that you get a normal error you can debug :-)

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edited Aug 10 '19 at 03:31

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answered Apr 18 '11 at 17:37

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Elmah giving error code 500 on production, but not on old host/local development

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