hi to all! I'm rather new to log4j, I am using tomcat 4.1.18,log4j-1.3alpha and commons-logging. when I place the log4j.xml in /WEB-INF/classes I observe an exception log4j:ERROR Could not parse input source [org.xml.sax.InputSource@770d2e]. java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: log4j.dtd at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:579) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:476) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:425) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager. java:807) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startDTDEntity(XMLEntityManag er.java:767) ..... at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:512) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl. java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces sorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203) How do I fix this? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- Osvaldo Andres Cifuentes Restrepo IT Solutions (Java/Linux). FreeLance. Rionegro-Antioquia, Colombia TEL : (574) 561 48 81 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- Visite mi sitio @ http://osvaldo.cifuentes.name ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----------