title: Unrecognized configuration section log4net. web.config website
body: <p>I use log4net to log the errors in my web application and it works fine. However if I place the same code in website I get error "Unrecognized configuration section log4net"</p>
  
  <p>here is my web.config section </p>
  
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  <pre><code>&lt;section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler,Log4net" requirePermission="false"/&gt;  
  </code></pre>
  
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  <pre><code>&lt;root&gt;
  
    &lt;level value="RELEASE" /&gt;
  
    &lt;appender-ref ref="LogFileAppender" /&gt;
  
  &lt;/root&gt;
  
  &lt;appender name="LogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender" &gt;
  
          &lt;param name="File" value="D:\ESSReport\Logs\ESSlog.log" /&gt;
  
          &lt;param name="AppendToFile" value="true" /&gt;
  
    &lt;rollingStyle value="Size" /&gt;
  
    &lt;maxSizeRollBackups value="5" /&gt;
  
    &lt;maximumFileSize value="4MB" /&gt;
  
    &lt;staticLogFileName value="true" /&gt;
  
    &lt;layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout"&gt;
  
     &lt;param name="ConversionPattern" value="%newline%-5p%d{yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss} [%thread] [%logger] [%line] %newline - %message"  /&gt;
  
    &lt;/layout&gt;
  
  &lt;/appender&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
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  <p>I have added dll to my website</p>