Oh. I should have spent more time on my reading up! But no mention of this was made in my study guide... Darn... Thanks for the info!
But if it works on other PCs, including my desktop, without the jar files in the WEB-INF/lib folder, why shouldn't it work on my laptop? The OS is the same and the software versions for implementing the application are all identical! Except that my laptop has WinXP SP1 installed... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Ebersole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Log4J Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 02 March, 2003 1:53 AM Subject: Re: Really Newbie Problem > Glad you got it working. > > A note on your postscript. All jar files required by a servlet-based > application should be present in the web app's WEB-INF/lib directory for > automatic detection. Thats not unique to Tomcat. > > Typically when using log4j in a web-app, place log4j.jar in the WEB-INF/lib > directory; place your config file in WEB-INF/classes... > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ronnie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Log4J Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 9:59 AM > Subject: Re: Really Newbie Problem > > > > It's working at last!!! =) :-) > > > > I put the file log4j.jar into the "webapps/<appName>/WEB-INF/lib" folder > and > > it worked! > > > > I added the -Dlog4j.debug=true line into catalina.bat and found that log4j > > initialization couldn't find log4j.properties file. > > So out of frustration I copied the files log4j.jar and log4j.properties > into > > every single folder in "webapps/<appName>" and started tomcat. > > Got a shock when it actually started initializing correctly! > > Went through some trial and testing and found out the cause of all my woes > > for the past week... > > > > This is all thanks to you Mr Ebersole! I thank you very much! =) > > > > > > Gratefully, > > Ronnie > > > > P.S. Maybe this problem could be highlighted in the documentation? I had > > thought Tomcat should be able to find all required libraries in > "common/lib" > > but turned out to be false in my case. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Steve Ebersole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Log4J Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, 01 March, 2003 10:49 PM > > Subject: Re: Really Newbie Problem > > > > > > > Probabaly not. I am assuming startup is the bat/cmd file to start > tomcat? > > > You need to edit that file. Somewhere in that file there will be a java > > > command to actually start tomcat. Thats where you need to put the -D. > > > > > > java -D log4j.debug=true ... > > > > > > Also just noticed that you define a logger named > > > "edu.rmit.isys2049.EmployeeAccessBean", but then never attach any > > appenders > > > to it. Because of the "additivity" feature of log4j, statements going > to > > > that logger will also be handled by the rootLogger, but root has WARN > set > > as > > > its level. So in reality, statements sent to the > > > "edu.rmit.isys2049.EmployeeAccessBean" logger, will only shoe up if they > > are > > > WARN or above. Not sure that is what you are intending. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Promote your business from just $5 a month! > > http://sg.biztools.yahoo.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Promote your business from just $5 a month! http://sg.biztools.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
