The problem you are experiencing is that the command line shell is not treating log4j.configurationFile as a variable name. Try putting it in single quotes.
Ralph > Begin forwarded message: > > From: LV XIAOYI <bgl...@hotmail.com> > Subject: how to load an external log4j2.xml when running a standalone > application? > Date: August 8, 2017 at 7:17:52 PM MST > To: "log4j-user@logging.apache.org" <log4j-user@logging.apache.org> > Reply-To: "Log4J Users List" <log4j-user@logging.apache.org> > > Hi all, > > > I have an executable jar, and I run it with this command: > > > java -jar .\my.jar > > > if log42j.xml in my.jar, it is working, if log42.xml out of my.jar, it is > not working. > > > I try the “-Dlog4j.configurationFile” to load log4j2.xml like this: > > > java -Dlog4j.configurationFile=.\log4j2.xml -jar .\ubbp-scheduled-1.0.2.jar > > > then it shows erros: > > > ERROR: cannot find or load the main class .configurationFile=.\log4j2.xml. > > > it seems that the -D option cannot apply to the command: java -jar. > > > So, is there anyway to load an external log4j2.xml when running a standalone > application?
