If it is running as a service, you can still have a rights problem.
If at some point in the path you do not have the proper rights, it can prevent the use of relative paths.
How are you starting Tomcat? Service or user?
Doug
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ethan Cabiac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 9:23 AM
Subject: **CONFIDENTIAL** Configuring Log4j in webapps
Hi everyone,
I don't know if this is a Log4j problem or a Tomcat related issue but I
am posting here first because I already subscribe to this mailing list ;).
I have two (theoretically) identical Tomcat webservers (Tomcat 5.0), one on
my local WinXP machine for dev/testing and one on the company's Win 2003
Server machine for production. When I setup my log4j files in my webapps I
use:
log4j.appender.A1.File=../logs/mywebapplog.log
On my test machine this will work perfectly and even create the log file on
Tomcat startup if it does not exist. On my production database it will not
work if I use relative path, I actually have to specify
C:/path_to_logs/mywebapplog.log and if the file is not there already then
Tomcat complains on startup and no log gets written for the webapp. Like I
said, the two Tomcats are supposed to be identical, but maybe there is a
configuration discrepancy I missed, or maybe this is a Log4j thing? Any help
is appreciated.
-Ethan Cabiac
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