The webapp (or even mulitple copies of the webapp deployed at different paths) has to work when dropped into a variety of containers. Dorking with CLASSPATH and system properties are out. I simply need someway to tell the FileAppenders that relative pathnames should be relative to some directory, I think. But I need to do that *before* they try to read/access their files.
And you're right... I didn't actually describe what I do today. I don't actually put my log4j.properties in the classpath. My servlet code reads the prop file from somewhere else under WEB-INF and uses a PropertyConfigurator... this all seems wrong though.
-Eric
Jacob Kjome wrote:
Why not use a system property and reference it in your config using the usual ${someproperty} syntax. For instance...
${catalina.home}/logs/mylog.log
If you want it to be dynamic per webapp, then you can set the system property in a servlet context listener and then perform the manual configuration of Log4j.
And if you are configuring manually via a startup servlet, why put log4j.properties in the classpath? It would get picked up there automatically anyway (at least under a server using child-first classloading behavior recommended by the servlet spec) assuming log4j.jar is also in WEB-INF/lib.
Jake
At 05:02 PM 11/11/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>I want to use log4j to configure my webapp to write log files underneath
>it's WEB-INF directory.
>
>Today, I drop a log4j.properties file in WEB-INF/classes and I
>use code in the initialization of a servlet to programmatically fill in
>the .File property for a FileAppender (or a subclass of FileAppender)
>
>It would be nice if there was a way to specify the dir that the
>pathnames parsed in log4j.properties were relative to or some other
>technique for having the logfiles be relative to the webapp w/out
>writing code.
>
>Any advice?
>
>Thanks,
>-Eric
>
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