Requests against elmah.axd always fails with a 500 - Internal server error. Why? :-(

Question

I used the NuPack tool to add Elmah to a site on my developer machine. This worked like a charm, but when I send a request to the elmah.axd page all I get in return is 500 - Internal server error.

My code setup:
Visual Studio 2010
Site built on top of EPiServer 4.62B
Running on .NET Framework 2 (because of EPiServer)

My IIS setup:
IIS 7.5
Classic .NET AppPool (because of EPiServer)

My computer:
running Windows 7 32bit (because of EPiServer)

ELMAH content in web.config:

<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>

inside configSections.

<elmah>
  <security allowRemoteAccess="yes" />
  <errorLog type="Elmah.XmlFileErrorLog, Elmah" logPath="~/App_Data" />
</elmah>

At this stage I don't really need allowRemoteAccess since I am running everyting from my machine, but trying anything at the moment. And I know elmah.dll is running because the log files are beeing created.

<add verb="POST,GET,HEAD" path="elmah.axd" type="Elmah.ErrorLogPageFactory, Elmah" />

inside system.web | httpHandlers.

<add name="ErrorLog" type="Elmah.ErrorLogModule, Elmah" />
<add name="ErrorMail" type="Elmah.ErrorMailModule, Elmah" />
<add name="ErrorFilter" type="Elmah.ErrorFilterModule, Elmah" />

inside system.web | httpmodules.

<add name="ErrorLog" type="Elmah.ErrorLogModule, Elmah" />
<add name="ErrorMail" type="Elmah.ErrorMailModule, Elmah" />
<add name="ErrorFilter" type="Elmah.ErrorFilterModule, Elmah" />

inside system.webServer | modules

<add name="Elmah" verb="POST,GET,HEAD" path="elmah.axd" type="Elmah.ErrorLogPageFactory, Elmah" />

inside system.webServer | handlers

I have basically added every suggestion I could find on the net to the web.config, but without it doing any good. Which leads me to believe that something else is wrong, any ideas?

Answer 1

You dont have a connection string to the Elmah database in there.

Also have you added the Elmah and SqlLite dlls to your bin folder?

I have a minimal setup guide here which might help:
http://www.codeulike.com/2010/05/quick-elmah-setup.html

Answer 2

Anything useful in you windows logs? Tried attaching visual studio to the server to try and catch the exception that way ?