How to get ELMAH to work with ASP.NET MVC [HandleError] attribute?

Question

I am trying to use ELMAH to log errors in my ASP.NET MVC application, however when I use the [HandleError] attribute on my controllers ELMAH doesn\'t log any errors when the

Answer 1

A completely alternative solution is to not use the MVC HandleErrorAttribute, and instead rely on ASP.Net error handling, which Elmah is designed to work with.

You need to remove the default global HandleErrorAttribute from App_Start\FilterConfig (or Global.asax), and then set up an error page in your Web.config:

Note, this can be an MVC routed URL, so the above would redirect to the ErrorController.Index action when an error occurs.