FileNotFoundException (Logback) while starting app

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When running SpringBoot 2.0.3 app on tomcat 8.5.0 i get following error:

ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender[FILE] - openFile(C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 9.0\temp/spring.log,true) call failed. java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 9.0\temp\spring.log (Access is denied)

logback-spring.xml from this module is as follow:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>

    <springProperty scope="context" name="springAppName" source="spring.application.name"/>
    <include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/base.xml"/>
    <include resource="logback-json.xml"/>
    <property name="LOG_PATTERN"
              value="%date{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS}|${springAppName}|[%X{X-B3-TraceId:-},%X{X-B3-SpanId:-},%X{X-Span-Export:-}]|%thread|%.-1level|%logger{10}|%msg%n"/>

    <appender name="CONSOLE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
        <encoder>
            <pattern>${LOG_PATTERN}</pattern>
        </encoder>
    </appender>

    <appender name="ROLLING" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
        <file>${catalina.base}/logs/${springAppName}.log</file>
        <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedRollingPolicy">
            <fileNamePattern>${catalina.base}/logs/${springAppName}-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.%i.log.zip</fileNamePattern>
            <maxFileSize>200MB</maxFileSize>
        </rollingPolicy>
        <encoder>
            <pattern>${LOG_PATTERN}</pattern>
        </encoder>
    </appender>

    <logger name="pl.X" level="debug"/>

    <logger name="jdbc.sqltiming" level="info"/>

    <appender name="ASYNC_REQUEST_RESPONSE_JSON_LOG" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.AsyncAppender">
        <appender-ref ref="REQUEST_RESPONSE_JSON_LOG"/>
    </appender>

    <appender name="ASYNC_ROLLING" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.AsyncAppender">
        <appender-ref ref="ROLLING"/>
    </appender>
    <appender name="ASYNC_SERVER_JSON_LOG" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.AsyncAppender">
        <appender-ref ref="SERVER_JSON_LOG"/>
    </appender>
    <logger name="somePakaes.trace.XLoggingFilter" additivity="false" level="DEBUG">
        <appender-ref ref="ASYNC_REQUEST_RESPONSE_JSON_LOG"/>
    </logger>
    <root level="WARN">
        <appender-ref ref="ASYNC_ROLLING"/>
        <appender-ref ref="ASYNC_SERVER_JSON_LOG"/>
        <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>
    </root>

And here is logback-json.xml that above files refers to:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<included>
    <springProperty scope="context" name="springAppName" source="spring.application.name"/>

    <appender name="SERVER_JSON_LOG" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
        <file>${catalina.base}/logs/${springAppName}.json</file>
        <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedRollingPolicy">
            <fileNamePattern>${catalina.base}/logs/${springAppName}-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.%i.json.zip</fileNamePattern>
            <maxFileSize>200MB</maxFileSize>
            <maxHistory>2</maxHistory>
        </rollingPolicy>
        <encoder class="net.logstash.logback.encoder.LoggingEventCompositeJsonEncoder">
            <providers>
                <pattern>
                    <pattern>
                        {
                        "date":"%date",
                        "severity": "%level",
                        "service": "${springAppName}",
                        "trace": "%X{X-B3-TraceId:-}",
                        "span": "%X{X-B3-SpanId:-}",
                        "parent": "%X{X-B3-ParentSpanId:-}",
                        "exportable": "%X{X-Span-Export:-}",
                        "pid": "${PID:-}",
                        "thread": "%thread",
                        "class": "%logger{26}",
                        "message": "%message",
                        "ex": "%ex"
                        }
                    </pattern>
                </pattern>
            </providers>
        </encoder>
    </appender>

    <logger name="org.springframework.cloud.sleuth.instrument.web.TraceFilter" level="error"/>
    <logger name="org.springframework.cloud.sleuth.instrument.web.TraceHandlerInterceptor" level="error"/>


    <appender name="REQUEST_RESPONSE_JSON_LOG" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
        <file>${catalina.base}/logs/${springAppName}_request_response.json</file>
        <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedRollingPolicy">
            <fileNamePattern>${catalina.base}/logs/${springAppName}_request_response-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.%i.json.zip</fileNamePattern>
            <maxFileSize>200MB</maxFileSize>
            <maxHistory>2</maxHistory>
        </rollingPolicy>

        <encoder class="net.logstash.logback.encoder.LoggingEventCompositeJsonEncoder">
            <providers>
                <pattern>
                    <pattern>
                        {
                        "date":"%date",
                        "service": "${springAppName}",
                        "severity": "%level",
                        "trace": "%X{X-B3-TraceId:-}",
                        "span": "%X{X-B3-SpanId:-}",
                        "parent": "%X{X-B3-ParentSpanId:-}",
                        "pid": "${PID:-}",
                        "thread": "%thread",
                        "message": "%message"
                        }
                    </pattern>
                </pattern>
            </providers>
        </encoder>
    </appender>
</included>

But the problem disappears when running InteliJ as an admin.

(Access is denied) Program Files is a protected directory and cannot be accessed without administrator permissions. — Compass

MohammadReza Alagheband MohammadReza Alagheband · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-13T16:17:36

Two reasons you might facing in this condition:

See if you have permission to read spring.log file or not this is the most obvious reason of java.io.FileNotFoundException: (Access is denied) exception and I didn't had sufficient permission so I immediately provided read, write and execute permission to the log file and tried again.
See if some other process is using that file This could be another possible reason of java.io.FileNotFoundException: (Access is denied).

FileNotFoundException (Logback) while starting app

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