Custom authentication for Elmah in .net mvc

Question

I have a mvc project but I use a custom membership provider which I cannot integrate with Elmah.

What I want is a way for me to make sure only admins can reach mydomain.com/Elmah

So either if I can get Elmah to check with my membership provider (which has nothing to do with any microsoft membership) or more likely if I can setup in web.config that that particular path requires separate authentication of some sort.

I am fine with having a separate user for accessing Elmah

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 21 '14 at 20:02

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In the web.config, in <appSettings> include this

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

and in the <elmah> section include this

<security allowRemoteAccess="yes" />

now if you access mydomain.com/Elmah you get a pop up to enter your credentials. You can use the windows username/password of the machine on which you hosted the website.

answered May 21 '14 at 20:02

sunil

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That is exactly what I am looking for, but my plan is to host on azure, how will it work there? – Rickard Liljeberg May 21 '14 at 20:13
Try the username/password given in the publish settings. When you login into your portal and navigate to your website your should see a "Download the publish profile" on the right. This file has username and password, try using those. – sunil May 21 '14 at 21:15
Excellent, sadly I don't have time to test for a few days but will remember to mark as answer if it works. – Rickard Liljeberg May 21 '14 at 21:35
is there a way to configure certain users access only? – kiev Jun 12 '14 at 16:02
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ok found the solution, nevermind – kiev Jun 12 '14 at 16:16
Sorry for the delay in accepting answer, but as usual a million things to do. It works like a charm in combination with kiev's comment – Rickard Liljeberg Oct 12 '14 at 10:13

Custom authentication for Elmah in .net mvc

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