log4j path in production for tomcat 7 on windows

Question

I need simple path setting to use log4j to be used for logging FINEST level of logging. But all forums and discussions show path setting for log4j.properties file either under eclipse or in some dev env. For a non development user, i need to set log4j.properties file, i tried in C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.27\conf path, but dosent help. stdout logs show default logs, note I have deleted default ogging.properties from \conf folder. Where do i put log4j.properties file in windows tomcat folder ?

Peter Butkovic Peter Butkovic · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-16T06:14:50

well, as official docs say (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/logging.html), you should have not deleted, the default logging.properites file, present on:

${catalina.base}/conf/logging.properties

,but rather add there what you need:

org.apache.catalina.level=FINEST

and

You would need to ensure the ConsoleHandler's (or FileHandler's') level is also set to collect this threshold, so FINEST or ALL should be set.

Or is there any strict requirement for you to use log4j (as per default JULI is used by tomcat7)?

UPDATE:

OK, as you mentioned, you're interested in the log4j case only. Let me point you to the official documentation: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/logging.html#Using_Log4j

Please follow the steps present there. As they claim to be working :)

For the explicit points you mentioned, the location of the log4j.properties file:

Create a file called log4j.properties with the following content and save it into $CATALINA_BASE/lib

log4j.rootLogger=FINEST, CATALINA

# Define all the appenders
log4j.appender.CATALINA=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.CATALINA.File=${catalina.base}/logs/catalina.
log4j.appender.CATALINA.Append=true
log4j.appender.CATALINA.Encoding=UTF-8
# Roll-over the log once per day
log4j.appender.CATALINA.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd'.log'
log4j.appender.CATALINA.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.CATALINA.layout.ConversionPattern = %d [%t] %-5p %c- %m%n

log4j.appender.LOCALHOST=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.File=${catalina.base}/logs/localhost.
log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.Append=true
log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.Encoding=UTF-8
log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd'.log'
log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.layout.ConversionPattern = %d [%t] %-5p %c- %m%n

log4j.appender.MANAGER=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.MANAGER.File=${catalina.base}/logs/manager.
log4j.appender.MANAGER.Append=true
log4j.appender.MANAGER.Encoding=UTF-8
log4j.appender.MANAGER.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd'.log'
log4j.appender.MANAGER.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.MANAGER.layout.ConversionPattern = %d [%t] %-5p %c- %m%n

log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.File=${catalina.base}/logs/host-manager.
log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.Append=true
log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.Encoding=UTF-8
log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd'.log'
log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.layout.ConversionPattern = %d [%t] %-5p %c- %m%n

log4j.appender.CONSOLE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.Encoding=UTF-8
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern = %d [%t] %-5p %c- %m%n

# Configure which loggers log to which appenders
log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost]=INFO, LOCALHOST
log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/manager]=\
  INFO, MANAGER
log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/host-manager]=\
  INFO, HOST-MANAGER

Compared to the official docs, I just changed the 1.st line of the config to: log4j.rootLogger=FINEST, CATALINA

(But make sure you do the rest of the steps as well - like copying of the jar files,...)

log4j path in production for tomcat 7 on windows

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