wcf trying to set up tracing to debug, not writing to log file

Question

here\'s my web.config, running a WCF service in an application on IIS7, but nothing is being written to the specified file. permission on the file has been granted for ever

Answer 1

Yes - you've only just defined some .NET tracing source and listeners - but you haven't instructed WCF yet to actually do the tracing!

You also need:

These two sections of config combined should do it!

In order to get your messages written back to the log file right away, you might want to add a setting to your section:

    ... everything you already have....