log4j - File Appenders..

Hi all,..

Is there a way to have the log4j log file (declared in log4j.properties) within the web application - say WEB-INF/logs/example.log

I am not really sure how to give this relative path to file appenders in log4j.properties. My log4j.properties :

I appreciate your ideas on this.
Thanks again

Using a "relative path" in a web application means relative to the application server's working directory. There's only one working directory for a JVM so it can't be related to any of the applications being run in the server. And that makes it useless for you.

You can put "${abc}" into a log4j configuration file and the configurator will replace that with the value of the "abc" Java system property. But again, system properties are one-per-JVM and not one-per-webapp so that probably isn't much more helpful.

Besides, if you put the logs into the web app then when you install a new WAR or EAR file, you lose all of those logs. You might want to consider logging to a fixed location outside of the application server.

Thanks Paul Clapham

I think i will follow what you said - have the log file outside of the application server.