Howdy, Even if deploy exploded (a feature servlet containers are not required to support), the server admin may configure the server such that you don't have write access under your webapp. The only directory you're guaranteed write access to by the servlet specification is javax.servlet.context.tempdir, which the container may clean on shutdown, so you don't want to put your logs there.
Deciding where logs go is a server administrator decision: leave it up to he/she by allowing them to configure something easily in web.xml or better yet, a server configuration entry you pick up via an env-entry in your web.xml file. Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Doubleday, Dennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:07 PM >To: 'Log4J Users List' >Subject: RE: Making HTML log file available through web app > >No, different servers for different customers. > >Yes, OK, I suppose I can have a different log4j.xml for each app server and >a server-specific Ant deployment target. > >What should the relative file location be, though, if I deploy an EAR file >to the server and there is no exploded context-relative directory to write >the logs to? Will I have to deploy exploded in order for that to work? Is >that server-dependent? > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:57 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Making HTML log file available through web app > > >This isn't necessarily app-server independent, but you can probably can >take >advantage of variable substitution in the config file. Log4j can >substitute >system property values into the log4j config file using the Ant-like syntax >(${<system properties>}), so if your app server puts deployment-specific >information into system variables (Weblogic does), then you can use them. > >Is it really necessary to do it in a totally app-server independent manner? >It's just a matter of changing the config file. Are you running a >heterogenous set of J2EE servers? > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
