You could start up the server with...
tomcat.bat -Dtomcat.home=%TOMCAT_HOME%
Actually, I believe Tomcat sets catalina.home as a system variable anyway, so if
you referenced ${catalina.home} in your config file, it should be resolved to
the path to Tomcat.
Jake
Quoting Norma Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi everyone,
> I need to place my log file in a desired location to move from home
> development to my web host's server, so it must be an exact location. Even
> simply trying at home to put it in the %TOMCAT_HOME%/logs path is not
> working. The method I'm using is the only desirable because I cannot set a
> variable visible to the JVM because I don't have access to Tomcat.bat, etc.
> I get an error in the console immediately and Tomcat never starts up because
> of the properties files. Here is
>
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> theHome = C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Tomcat 4.1/logs
> log4j.rootCategory=ERROR, E
> log4j.appender.E=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
> log4j.appender.E.Threshold=ERROR
> log4j.appender.E.File=${theHome}/Log.html
> log4j.appender.E.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
> log4j.appender.E.layout=org.apache.log4j.HTMLLayout
> log4j.appender.E.layout.LocationInfo=true
> log4j.appender.E.layout.Title=Logging!
> Any thoughts?
> Thanks,
> Norma
>
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