Hi,
This question is routinely addressed on the tomcat-user mailing list:
you may wish to search that list's archives for the myriad approaches
and solutions that people have proposed over the years.
Common ones include:
- NOT to use a relative filename, as the definition of Current Working
Directory is far from portable,
- Use Ant tokens in your configuration files (if you use a log4j
configuration file) and substitute appropriate values when
packaging/deploying your webapp
- Use System Properties (e.g. ${CATALINA_HOME}/logs/myLog.txt) -- this
approach is frequently suggested on this list and examples/discussion
are in the archives
- Use a env-entry/env-entry-ref combination: while this is the most
heavyweight, it's also the most portable and most in line with the J2EE
spec, leaving it up to the server admin to tell your webapp where to
log.
Yoav Shapira
Millennium Research Informatics
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen Pain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:54 AM
>To: Log4J Users List
>Subject: Re: FileAppender file path in a web app
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>
>Keith,
>
>When we deploy to our managed hosting service, they tell us to use
>"../logs/filename.log" - obviously this doesn't guarantee that the same
>will work for you, but it does demonstrate that relative filenames
work!
>
>Unfortunately I don't have access to tell you exactly where ../ points
to,
>but your hosting service might be able to suggest a similar location?
>
>Cheers,
>Stephen
>
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> "Keith Rogers"
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> arkman.com> cc:
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>file path in a web app
> 26/05/2004 10:19
> Please respond to
> "Log4J Users List"
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>How would I specify a path for file appenders to use in a web-app? I
can
>specify an absolute path, but while this is fine on my development
>server, it will be a problem when I deploy to the hosting service we
>use, as I don't know what the file structure is above our application
>directory. What I'd really like is to just be able to specify
>/web-inf/logs/debug.log
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>I've tried using relative filenames, but this does not seem to work.
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