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In Ektron ,how errors or exceptions are handled.Is there any method to handle this?
Any table in Ektron DB stores errors or exception.How we handle events using the class Ektron.Cms.EkException?

You can make use of the helper functions from the Ektron.Cms.Instrumentation class.
You need to enable some settings in config files to make use of these functions.
Web.config:Update LogLevel as "4"
<!-- Determines the level of messages that are logged
1 = Error: Only Errors are logged.
2 = Warning: Only warnings and Errors are logged.
3 = Information: Only Informationals, Warnings, and Errors are logged.
4 = Verbose: Everything is logged.
NOTE: you can configure where each message level is logged using the instrumentation.config.
-->
<add name="LogLevel" value="4"/>
Instrumentation.config:
Add "Trace" to "Verbose"
<add switchValue="All" name="Verbose">
<listeners>
<add name="Event Log" />
<add name="Trace" />
</listeners>
</add>
Once these changes are made in config files,you can use the helper functions.
For example,
Exception ex=new Exception("Test Exception");
Ektron.Cms.Instrumentation.Log.WriteError(ex);
(Explore the Ektron.Cms.Instrumentation class for more details)

Errors are logged to the Event viewer by default. Under "Application"

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asp.net core out-of-process fails to start correctly

I'm attempting to us the RunFromPackage App Setting for an Azure Web Site.
I'm using the following stack
asp.net core (out-of-process)
Targeting .Net Framework 4.7.2
and I can no longer get my web application to run correctly. when I hit the url all I get is
"The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred."
in the response.
I have launched my application using the Kudu powershell window with the command
".{applicationName}.exe"
and it start up fine. No errors or anything
Viewing the event viewer logs all I see is
APPLICATION_MANAGER::~APPLICATION_MANAGER | this=000001D1CD999A60 [TID 8872] [PID 8028]
When turning on the Failed Request Tracing Logs I see the following relevant information
URL_CACHE_ACCESS_START RequestURL="/favicon.ico" 15:37:30.729
URL_CACHE_ACCESS_END PhysicalPath="", URLInfoFromCache="false", URLInfoAddedToCache="true", ErrorCode="The operation completed successfully.
(0x0)" 15:37:30.729
GENERAL_GET_URL_METADATA PhysicalPath="", AccessPerms="545" 15:37:30.729
HANDLER_CHANGED OldHandlerName="", NewHandlerName="aspNetCore", NewHandlerModules="AspNetCoreModule", NewHandlerScriptProcessor="", NewHandlerType="" 15:37:30.729
MODULE_SET_RESPONSE_ERROR_STATUS
Warning ModuleName="IIS Web Core", Notification="BEGIN_REQUEST", HttpStatus="500", HttpReason="Internal Server Error", HttpSubStatus="0", ErrorCode="Access is denied.
(0x80070005)", ConfigExceptionInfo=""
I have tried to turn on the asp.net core module logging but I get no log files. I have also tried to turn on the stdoutlog but nothing is appearing to log.
Here is a copy of my web.config
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<security>
<access sslFlags="SslNegotiateCert" />
</security>
<serverRuntime uploadReadAheadSize="30000000" />
<handlers>
<add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*" modules="AspNetCoreModule" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<aspNetCore processPath="%LAUNCHER_PATH%" stdoutLogEnabled="true" stdoutLogFile="\\?\%home%\LogFiles\stdout" hostingModel="OutOfProcess" arguments="%LAUNCHER_ARGS%">
<handlerSettings>
<handlerSetting name="debugFile" value="\\?\%home%\LogFiles\aspnetcore-debug.log" />
<handlerSetting name="debugLevel" value="FILE,TRACE" />
</handlerSettings>
</aspNetCore>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
I'm not really sure what is going on. All I can gather is something is going wrong with the IIS Module. from the error message it appears that it cannot read or process my web.config ErrorCode="Access is denied."
Strangely enough I had a previous build of the application up and running. I have tried to isolate the changes that may have broke the site but I cant seem to find out what has cause this.
It appears that this was due to the fact I was trying to get only client authentication on one endpoint.
The following setting
<access sslFlags="SslNegotiateCert" />
in the web.config, and Require incoming Certificate in the App Settings caused my issue.
I then tried the feature of "Certificate exclusion paths" but having this and the web.config access node makes the web server very upset and causes the error message
"The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred."
I had to remove the node from my web.config file, leave the Required SSL, and set my Certificate Exclusion path and everything turned back online.

Why does this web api need a local web api call to log?

I have two almost identical web api services programmed in C# and installed on the same Windows 2008 Server on IIS 6.1. When I do web api calls to them, they both work just fine. I am using log4net for logging purposes. One of them, however, does not always log. They both have the same exact log4net configuration, which is:
<log4net>
<root>
<level value="DEBUG" />
<appender-ref ref="RollingLogFileAppender" />
</root>
<appender name="RollingLogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
<file value="C:\LOGS\SomeFolder\" />
<appendToFile value="true" />
<lockingModel type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender+MinimalLock" />
<preserveLogFileNameExtension value="true" />
<rollingStyle value="Date" />
<datePattern value="'WebApi.One.'yyyy-MM-dd'.log'" />
<staticLogFileName value="false" />
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%-5level [%thread][%date{dd-MM-yy HH:mm:ss,fff}] %logger - %message%newline" />
</layout>
</appender>
</log4net>
The only difference in the configuration is the datePattern which has a slightly different name so that they do not log to the same exact file.
For the web api where logging works as expected a new log file is created each day as soon as a web api call comes in. For the web api where logging does not seem to work the new log file is not created. However, if I make a web api call from a browser on the same server as it is installed on, then logging starts. After the logging has started for that day it continues fine (even with web api calls coming from other machines). But the next day no new file is created.
I am unable to see what the difference is. Surely there must be something I am not thinking of that makes these two web apis behave differently when it comes to logging. Remember, both of the services work fine, it is just the logging that is not working for one of them.
Any suggestions?
Edit 1:
After adding diagnostics as suggested by Peter I can see that the access to the path is denied:
log4net:ERROR Could not create Appender [RollingLogFileAppender] of type [log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender]. Reported error follows.
System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C__LOGS_WebApi.One_' is denied.
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.Threading.Mutex.MutexTryCodeHelper.MutexTryCode(Object userData)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData)
at System.Threading.Mutex.CreateMutexWithGuaranteedCleanup(Boolean initiallyOwned, String name, Boolean& createdNew, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs)
at System.Threading.Mutex..ctor(Boolean initiallyOwned, String name, Boolean& createdNew, MutexSecurity mutexSecurity)
at System.Threading.Mutex..ctor(Boolean initiallyOwned, String name)
at log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender.ActivateOptions()
at log4net.Repository.Hierarchy.XmlHierarchyConfigurator.ParseAppender(XmlElement appenderElement)
log4net:ERROR Appender named [RollingLogFileAppender] not found.
I don't know why though.
Edit 2:
I checked solutions in these StackOverflow answers:
What am I doing wrong with thie log4net implementation?
log4net: Error on loading custom appender
But still no progress.
This looked very similar, but I could see no solution there (although maybe there is one).
Edit 3:
Folder permissions:
According to the exception message, the process does not have enough rights to write to the location of the log file.
In my experience with dealing with IIS, changing the security permissions on the folder where the log file is stored so that the application/process has the rights to modify the log file(s) usually works.
To confirm/troubleshoot start by giving everyone full control on the folder and testing that the file can be modified.
If that works then you can confirm it is a permission issue.
I usually give IIS_IUSRS the following permission on the Log folder where I store my logs and archive.
Read
Write
Modify
To limit possible attack vectors I try to give the process as few permission as needed to perform its function. Adding and removing permissions and then testing that it still functions as desired.
It looks like a security issue, to debug this you should enable debugging for log4net:
<appSettings>
<add key="log4net.Internal.Debug" value="true"/>
</appSettings>
And
<system.diagnostics>
<trace autoflush="true">
<listeners>
<add
name="textWriterTraceListener"
type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener"
initializeData="C:\tmp\log4net.txt" />
</listeners>
</trace>
</system.diagnostics>
in your configuration.
This way you are able to see why the creation of the file fails.
log4net faq

Issue accessing Session state from user control

I am getting the following error when trying to pull from the Session state in the code behind of a user control.
Session state can only be used when enableSessionState is set to true, either in a configuration file or in the Page directive. Please also make sure that System.Web.SessionStateModule or a custom session state module is included in the \\ section in the application configuration.
Here is the config that I have in the section
<sessionState mode="InProc" cookieless="false" timeout="20"/>
<globalization requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8"/>
<pages enableSessionState="true"></pages>
<httpModules>
<remove name="Session" />
<add name="Session" type="System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule"/>
</httpModules>
Here is the how I reference in on the user control itself. This is done in Page_Load
If Not Session("ADName") Is Nothing AndAlso Session("ADName").length > 0 Then
'Do Stuff
End If
And my control declaration
<%# Control Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="UCHeader.ascx.vb" Inherits="PO.Web.UCHeader"
TargetSchema="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5" %>
What would be causing this issue. I am trying to build locally and get this issue, so it is not related to IIS at all. I am migrating this app from 2.0 to 3.5 and started getting the error at that time. Let me know if you need any more info. Thanks.

wcf trying to set up tracing to debug, not writing to log file

here's my web.config, running a WCF service in an application on IIS7, but nothing is being written to the specified file. permission on the file has been granted for everyone.
<system.diagnostics>
<sources>
<source name="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="Information, ActivityTracing, error, warning, critical" propagateActivity="true">
<listeners>
<add name="traceListener"
type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener"
initializeData="c:\log\tracestext.log" />
</listeners>
</source>
</sources>
</system.diagnostics>
I can add a service reference just fine.
I then try to call the service from a windows app and, after a few minutes, get an error on the machine running the windows app "Client is unable to finish the security negotiation within the configured timeout (00:00:00). The current negotiation leg is 1 (00:00:00)."
but absolutely nothing is written to the trace log file specified in config.
Is there something else I need to do to enable tracing? thanks for your help
EDIT: "sources" section now matches the section recommended here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa702726.aspx
I've added the "diagnostics . messagelogging" section to "system.servicemodel"
and the event viewer shows: "Message Logging has been turned on. Sensitive information may be logged in the clear, even if it was encrypted on the wire: for example, message bodies.
Process Name: w3wp
Process ID: 1784
"
but the log file is still empty
Yes - you've only just defined some .NET tracing source and listeners - but you haven't instructed WCF yet to actually do the tracing!
You also need:
<system.serviceModel>
<diagnostics>
<messageLogging
logMessagesAtTransportLevel="true" logMessagesAtServiceLevel="false"
logMalformedMessages="true" logEntireMessage="true"
maxSizeOfMessageToLog="65535000" maxMessagesToLog="500" />
</diagnostics>
</system.serviceModel>
These two sections of config combined should do it!
In order to get your messages written back to the log file right away, you might want to add a setting to your <system.diagnostics> section:
<system.diagnostics>
... everything you already have....
<trace autoflush="true" />
</system.diagnostics>
To write to the log file, make sure that identity running your web application has write access to the log directory.
You can find the identity in the IIS 7 management console. Select the application pool that your web application is using. Click on Advanced Settings... In the properties window, look for the identity field. It may say Network Service. This is the account that needs write permission to your log output folder.
If you already have a log file in this directory, try deleting it and letting the framework create it.
Hope this helps.
Make sure you have configured both the system.diagnostics and the
System.serviceModel/diagnostics sections configured.
Make sure you have them configured in the correct App.config/Web.config file. The thing to note is that multiple
config files may exist in a project, and the one used depends on the
Build Configuration.
Personally I had the very same symptom until I noticed that I put the sections under app.config (in my case, client side tracing), instead of app.DebugLocal.config. The later was used as my build configuration was set to DebugLocal.
Probably the issue is due to permission to write in the log directory specified in your config file.
If you are'nt sure wich is the user in the context, give write permission to all machine users.
Right click in log directory
Click in the "Security" tab
Click edit
On "Group Names or Users" section, select "Users MachineName\Users"
On "Permissions" section grant permission to write
It worked fine for me.

WCF logging messages

I have a WCF service (hosted by IIS webpage) that is working but I want to write more info out to a log file.
I inherited code and it had some simple logging to a file. That worked on the original developers machine but I don't get anything written out. Note it reads the log file path from the config which I assume was the web config but just in case I hard coded the location for now "c:\temp\logfile.log".
I gave full permissions to temp to ASPNET and then USERS thinking it was a permissions issues.
Also I noticed there was Tracing and Message logging built into WCF. Tried that but not sure if I'm doing it correctly.
Any ideas about the simple file writing?
Should I be doing the built in logging and if so any simple examples?
Thanks!
To configure Logging:
Configure Logging
1. In the Configuration Editor, select the Diagnostics node.
2. In the right pane, click Enable MessageLogging.
This will create ServiceModelMessageLoggingListener and
System.ServiceModel.MessageLogging nodes under the Listeners and Sources
folders, respectively.
3. In the left pane, select MessageLogging under the Diagnostics node.
4. Set the LogMessagesAtServiceLevel attribute to True by choosing this option
from the drop-down list.
5. In the left pane, select ServiceModelMessageLoggingListener under the
Listeners node.
Note the default value of the InitData attribute, which is set to
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\WCFService\web_messages.svclog, the location where the
message will be logged.
via WCF Security Guidance.
Use the following in <system.serviceModel>
<diagnostics>
<messageLogging
logEntireMessage="true"
logMalformedMessages="false"
logMessagesAtServiceLevel="true"
logMessagesAtTransportLevel="false"
maxMessagesToLog="3000"
maxSizeOfMessageToLog="2000"/>
</diagnostics>
and use the following in <configuration>
<system.diagnostics>
<sources>
<source name ="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="Information, ActivityTracing">
<listeners>
<add name="xml" />
</listeners>
</source>
<source name ="System.ServiceModel.MessageLogging"
switchValue="Verbose, ActivityTracing">
<listeners>
<add name="xml" />
</listeners>
</source>
<source name ="System.Runtime.Serialization" switchValue="Verbose">
<listeners>
<add name="xml" />
</listeners>
</source>
</sources>
<sharedListeners>
<add name="xml" type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener"
traceOutputOptions="LogicalOperationStack"
initializeData="C:\logs\RestAPISvcLog\Traces.svclog" />
</sharedListeners>
<trace autoflush="true" />
</system.diagnostics>
This will create log file and you can view directly that with svctracelog viewer (which comes with VS).
For more info refer this -- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms730064(v=vs.110).aspx
Use the EventViewer logging instead, but you will have to make sure your installer can create the appropriate EventViewer source.
Maybe you should use that Configuration Editor-Tool "SvcConfigEditor.exe" (see description on MSDN). This allows to configure WCF-logging in a quiet easy and structured way.
The log files can then be analysed with the Service Trace Viewer-Tool "SvcTraceViewer.exe" (see on MSDN).
Both tools are bundled with Visual Studio an can be downloaded from Microsoft.
To write to the log file, make sure that the identity running your web application has write access to the log directory.
IIS7:
You can find the identity in the IIS management console. Select the application pool that your web application is using. Click on Advanced Settings. In the properties window, look for the identity field. It may say Network Service. This is the account that needs write permission to your log output folder.
IIS6:
Same as IIS7 except right click on the app pool and select properties. The properties window of IIS6 will have an Identity tab.
If you already have a log file in this directory, try deleting it and letting the framework create it.
Hope this helps.