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Asked: 2026-06-12T06:56:00+00:00

I have a class in C# that saves an error message in a log

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I have a class in C# that saves an error message in a log file in case of an exception. Now I want to save the log file in the same folder containing the application’s (in my case, a website) files. I tried using Environment.CurrentDirectory however it is not retrieving the path to my website. What can I do please to make use of a relative file path which points inside the website’s directory?

Here is the class’ code. As you can see, the path is absolute. I want to change it to a relative file path pointing to a folder in my website’s directory.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Usually Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location) returns the path where the current assembly resides. You could use

    string logName = Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location), "MyLogFile.log");

    to create the log file name.

    Question is really whether logging to the application’s folder is permitted by the OS. Also, for Web-applications, the log file would be publically visible and accessible through the web browser.

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