Elmah.axd on WebAPI 2.2 - No HTTP Resource was found

Question

I'm trying to access /elmah.axd in my broswer, but it returns:

{"message":"No HTTP resource was found that matches the request URI 'http://services.domain.com/elmah.axd'."}

The server is local (127.0.0.1) and even on that I have my web.config Elmah settings to secure it this way:

<elmah>
    <security allowRemoteAccess="true" />
</elmah>

My WebApiConfig looks like:

public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
        {
            // Web API configuration and services
            // Locally only you will be able to see the exception errors
            config.IncludeErrorDetailPolicy = IncludeErrorDetailPolicy.LocalOnly;

            // Web API routes
            config.Routes.IgnoreRoute("elmah", "elmah.axd");
            config.Routes.IgnoreRoute("allemah", "elmah.axd/{*pathInfo}");
            config.Routes.IgnoreRoute("elmahgeneric", "{resource}.axd/{*everything}");
            config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();

            var jsonFormatter = config.Formatters.OfType<JsonMediaTypeFormatter>().First();
            jsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.ContractResolver = new CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver();

            // Remove the XML formatter
            config.Formatters.Remove(config.Formatters.XmlFormatter);

            config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
                name: "DefaultApi",
                routeTemplate: "{controller}/{id}",
                defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
            );
        }

I even tried ignoring only one route at the time from any of the 3 combinations and no luck.

finally my global.asax looks like this:

protected void Application_Start()
        {
            GlobalConfiguration.Configure(WebApiConfig.Register);

        }

Any hint or idea of what I could be missing, would be good.

Thanks in advance, really appreciate your time looking into this.

Answer 1

I finally made it.

By adding to the WebApiConfig.cs file

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute("AXD", "{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}", null, null, new StopRoutingHandler());

The entire code of the WebApiConfig.cs file looks like this:

public static class WebApiConfig
    {
        public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
        {
            // Web API configuration and services
            // Locally only you will be able to see the exception errors
            config.IncludeErrorDetailPolicy = IncludeErrorDetailPolicy.LocalOnly;

            // Web API routes
            config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();

            var jsonFormatter = config.Formatters.OfType<JsonMediaTypeFormatter>().First();
            jsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.ContractResolver = new CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver();

            // Remove the XML formatter
            config.Formatters.Remove(config.Formatters.XmlFormatter);

            config.Routes.MapHttpRoute("AXD", "{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}", null, null, new StopRoutingHandler());

            config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
                name: "DefaultApi",
                routeTemplate: "{controller}/{id}",
                defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
            );
        }


    }

And the final change is add this to the global.asax under application_start method

RouteTable.Routes.Ignore("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

Special thanks all who helped me with this issue.