Fyi You need to create tomcat folder, bin/setenv.bat on windows or sh on Linux https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9480210/tomcat-7-setenv-sh-is-not-found
On Fri, 7 Jan, 2022, 04:28 Bruno Melloni, <x.lo...@melloni.com> wrote: > Success! > > The issue turned out to be that placing the log4j2 jars and > log4j2-tomcat.xml in the tomcat/lib folder no longer works. > > The solution: > > * Followed the official instructions to the letter > (https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/log4j-appserver/index.html) > * Used this canned log4j2-tomcat.xml file that replicates the original > tomcat files but using log4j > (https://gist.github.com/bmaupin/475a0cd6e8b374d876f5085846761fb6) > * Could not edit setenv.sh in Windows (does not exist), so instead I > added the following (knowingly ugly and inflexible code - for now) > to catalina.bat: > > * set > > "CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%CATALINA_HOME%\log4j2\lib\log4j-api-2.17.1.jar" > * set > > "CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%CATALINA_HOME%\log4j2\lib\log4j-core-2.17.1.jar" > * set > > "CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%CATALINA_HOME%\log4j2\lib\log4j-appserver-2.17.1.jar" > * set "CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%CATALINA_HOME%\log4j2\conf" > > It now puts all of Tomcat's logging in the files, with virtually nothing > in the console. > > I hope the solution (or an improved version of this) helps others. > > bruno > > On 1/6/2022 5:34 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > I haven’t checked Tomcat 9, but the log4j-appserver module was created > to hook into Tomcat 8.5 and up. I just not sure if Tomcat changed their > logging mechanism yet again. > > > > Ralph > > > >> On Jan 6, 2022, at 2:43 PM, Bruno Melloni<x.lo...@melloni.com> wrote: > >> > >> A correction, after doing more troubleshooting and using even the > >> original log4j2.xml (on the previous install) it seems that the old > >> version was logging nothing to the files from Tomcat itself, and was > >> displaying everything on the console instead... in whatever mechanism it > >> wanted, so only my own apps were logging to the log4j files, with the > >> Tomcat output getting lost. > >> > >> So, the problem remains, it is not clear at all how you configure Tomcat > >> 9 to use log4j2 after all, and none of the guides on the internet are > >> complete enough to follow verbatim. > >> > >> On 1/6/2022 11:37 AM, Bruno Melloni wrote: > >>> A couple months ago I had no problem configuring Tomcat 9 with java 16 > to use log4j2. > >>> > >>> That time I simply deleted tomcat/conf/*logging.properties*, added to > *tomcat/lib* the following files and it worked. > >>> > >>> * log4j-api-2.*.jar > >>> * log4j-core-2.*.jar > >>> * log4j-appserver-2.*.jar > >>> * log4j2.xml > >>> > >>> Now I am setting up a new tomcat 9.0.56 with java 17 and log4j 2.17.1, > followed the same steps with one difference... I tweaked the log4j2.xml to > try to make it cleaner and easier to maintain/adjust. > >>> > >>> Unfortunately my new setup is failing to log anything at all. The only > place where I see something is on the console and it looks like it is not > even log4j output as it does not match the pattern I expected. I think I > am misunderstanding something about the use of properties in a log4j2.xml > file or I have some really dumb typo. > >>> > >>> I hope someone can give a glance at the following and tell me where I > messed up: > >>> > >>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > >>> <Configuration status="INFO"> <!-- used for internal log4j2 logging, > not related to apps or server --> > >>> <Properties> > >>> <Property name="appslogdir">D:/work/app-j17t9-C/logs</Property> > >>> <Property > name="appsarchivedir">D:/work/app-j17t9-C/logs/archive</Property> > >>> <Property > name="serverlogdir">D:/work/app-j17t9-C/logs/server</Property> > >>> <Property > name="serverarchivedir">D:/work/app-j17t9-C/logs/server/archive</Property> > >>> <Property name="layout">%d %-5p [%C] %m%n</Property> > >>> <Property name="rolloversize">10 MB</Property> > >>> </Properties> > >>> <Appenders> > >>> <Console name="CONSOLE" target="SYSTEM_OUT"> > >>> <PatternLayout pattern="${layout}"/> > >>> </Console> > >>> <RollingFile name="FILE" fileName="${appslogdir}/apps.txt" > filePattern="${appsarchivedir}/$${date:yyyy-MM}/apps-%d{MM-dd-yyyy}-%i.log.gz"> > >>> <PatternLayout pattern="${layout}"> > >>> <Policies> > >>> <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy /> > >>> <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="${rolloversize}"/> > >>> </Policies> > >>> <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="24"/> > >>> </RollingFile> > >>> <RollingFile name="EMAIL" fileName="${appslogdir}/email.txt" > filePattern="${appsarchivedir}/$${date:yyyy-MM}/email-%d{MM-dd-yyyy}-%i.log.gz"> > >>> <PatternLayout pattern="${layout}"> > >>> <Policies> > >>> <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy /> > >>> <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="${rolloversize}"/> > >>> </Policies> > >>> <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="24"/> > >>> </RollingFile> > >>> <!-- TOMCAT server appenders --> > >>> <RollingFile name="CATALINA" > fileName="${serverlogdir}/catalina.txt" > filePattern="${serverarchivedir}/$${date:yyyy-MM}/catalina-%d{MM-dd-yyyy}-%i.log.gz"> > >>> <PatternLayout pattern="${layout}"/> > >>> <Policies> > >>> <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy /> > >>> <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="${rolloversize}"/> > >>> </Policies> > >>> <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="24"/> > >>> </RollingFile> > >>> <RollingFile name="LOCALHOST" > fileName="${serverlogdir}/localhost.txt" > filePattern="${serverarchivedir}/$${date:yyyy-MM}/localhost-%d{MM-dd-yyyy}-%i.log.gz"> > >>> <PatternLayout pattern="${layout}"/> > >>> <Policies> > >>> <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy /> > >>> <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="${rolloversize}"/> > >>> </Policies> > >>> <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="24"/> > >>> </RollingFile> > >>> <RollingFile name="MANAGER" > fileName="${serverlogdir}/manager.txt" > filePattern="${serverarchivedir}/$${date:yyyy-MM}/manager-%d{MM-dd-yyyy}-%i.log.gz"> > >>> <PatternLayout pattern="${layout}"/> > >>> <Policies> > >>> <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy /> > >>> <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="${rolloversize}"/> > >>> </Policies> > >>> <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="24"/> > >>> </RollingFile> > >>> <RollingFile name="HOSTMANAGER" > fileName="${serverlogdir}/host-manager.txt" > filePattern="${serverarchivedir}/$${date:yyyy-MM}/host-manager-%d{MM-dd-yyyy}-%i.log.gz"> > >>> <PatternLayout pattern="${layout}"/> > >>> <Policies> > >>> <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy /> > >>> <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="${rolloversize}"/> > >>> </Policies> > >>> <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="24"/> > >>> </RollingFile> > >>> </Appenders> > >>> <Loggers> > >>> <Root level="info"> > >>> <!-- Root level="error" --> > >>> <AppenderRef ref="CONSOLE"/> > >>> <AppenderRef ref="FILE"/> > >>> </Root> > >>> <!-- avoid duplicated logs with additivity=false --> > >>> <Logger name="net.cndc" level="debug" additivity="false"> > >>> <AppenderRef ref="CONSOLE"/> > >>> <AppenderRef ref="FILE"/> > >>> </Logger> > >>> <!-- OPEN SOURCE LIBRARY loggers --> > >>> <Logger name="org.springframework" level="warn"/> > >>> <!-- TOMCAT SERVER loggers --> > >>> <Logger > name="org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost]" > level="info" additivity="false"> > >>> <AppenderRef ref="LOCALHOST" /> > >>> </Logger> > >>> <Logger > name="org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/manager]" > level="info" additivity="false"> > >>> <AppenderRef ref="MANAGER" /> > >>> </Logger> > >>> <Logger > name="org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/host-manager]" > level="info" additivity="false"> > >>> <AppenderRef ref="HOSTMANAGER" /> > >>> </Logger> > >>> <Logger name="org.apache.catalina" level="info" > additivity="false"> <!-- Might need to tweak this, normally is Root --> > >>> <AppenderRef ref="CATALINA" /> > >>> </Logger> > >>> </Loggers> > >>> </Configuration> > >>> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail:log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail:log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > 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