Hi, >What's the deal? I want to set a path to a log file by obtaining the >app realpath and then subtracting "/webapps/" and substituting >"/logs/". Is there a better way to do that?
For portability sake, so that you can deploy from a WAR file and don't require it to be exploded, there are a couple of options. - Include the complete path to a log file in your deployment descriptor, as a context-param or init-param to some startup servlet. - Log to a database, syslog, or another external facility. - Log to the temporary directory (javax.servlet.context.tempdir) and copy / persist the file upon shutdown. Kind of similar to the first option above, so I prefer the init-param approach. getRealPath() will not work when deploying from a WAR, as you are doing with the Manager app. See the JavaDoc for ServletContext.getRealPath() for details. That will lead to another option: - Use getResource() to construct the log file path with the same logic as your original request. I hope that helps a bit, Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
