Log4j, configuring a Web App to use a relative path

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Tomcat sets a catalina.home system property. You can use this in your log4j properties file. Something like this:

log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG,errorfile

log4j.appender.errorfile.File=${catalina.home}/logs/LogFilename.log

On Debian (including Ubuntu), ${catalina.home} will not work because that points at /usr/share/tomcat6 which has no link to /var/log/tomcat6. Here just use ${catalina.base}.

If your using another container, try to find a similar system property, or define your own. Setting the system property will vary by platform, and container. But for Tomcat on Linux/Unix I would create a setenv.sh in the CATALINA_HOME/bin directory. It would contain:

export JAVA_OPTS="-Dcustom.logging.root=/var/log/webapps"

Then your log4j.properties would be:

log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG,errorfile

log4j.appender.errorfile.File=${custom.logging.root}/LogFilename.log

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