What is confusing me is that I never had to catch the exception and log it from within my application in Tomcat 4, 5 or 5.5 - it just appeared in the web app log automatically.
Is there no way to configure Log4J/Tomcat 6 to do the same thing without having to do as you suggest? Ashley -----Original Message----- From: Filip Hanik - Dev Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 August 2007 19:51 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Logging Problem on Upgrade to Tomcat 6 it will only log to the webapp.log if your application catches the exception, then issues a log.error("msg",exception) (tomcat will do the same assuming it was correctly configured) if you provide a sample war, I can validate it for you Filip Ashley Hollands wrote: > I did build the extra JAR files as described in the documentation. > > Whether I am using Log4J at the Tomcat level, or using Tomcat's > default logging, I do get log messages in my web app log. For example > if I add the following to my web app log4j.properties: > > log4j.logger.com.mycompany=INFO > > it logs these messages to the web app log no problem - both with Log4J > and Tomcat's default logging at the top-level. > > My problem is that it isn't logging Exceptions even though as I > understand it, it should be logging anything with priority ERROR or > higher (lower?) that is generated by the web app to the web app log. > > Ashley > > -----Original Message----- > From: Filip Hanik - Dev Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 August 2007 19:12 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Logging Problem on Upgrade to Tomcat 6 > > Ashley Hollands wrote: > >> Thanks for the reply Filip >> >> >> >>> if you want a global log4j (instead of tomcat's own framework)... >>> >>> >> I have configured Tomcat to use Log4J at the top-level using the >> documentation you recommend no problem, but it doesn't solve my >> problem. >> >> What I want is for the Exception to get logged at the web application >> level (I'm not bothered whether it also gets logged at the Tomcat >> level or not - Using Tomcat 5.5, it used to get logged at the web >> application level and not at the Tomcat level at all). >> >> > you want it to go to webapp.log, as you configured below? > and you did build the additional JARs that Tomcat uses and removed the > usage of Tomcat's own logging. > from your explanation, it doesn't sound like you took these steps, > cause if you did, tomcat would log into your log4j, and not its own > mechanism > > Filip > >> Ashley >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Filip Hanik - Dev Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 22 August 2007 18:03 >> To: Tomcat Users List >> Subject: Re: Logging Problem on Upgrade to Tomcat 6 >> >> if you want a global log4j (instead of tomcat's own framework) >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/logging.html >> then you will need to be tomcat-juli.jar and tomcat-juli-adapters.jar >> as described in the docs, >> >> let me know if you need more clarification Filip >> >> Ashley Hollands wrote: >> >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I have recently upgraded from Tomcat 5.5 to 6.0 and from Java 1.5 to >>> 6. >>> >>> I use Log4J for all my web application logging and have discovered >>> that after the upgrade, any exceptions thrown in the web application >>> are not logged to my web application log, but to the top-level >>> Tomcat log. >>> >>> Does anybody know how I can make sure any java.lang.Exceptions >>> thrown are logged to the web application log? It used to work fine >>> with the previous versions of Tomcat (4, 5 and 5.5). >>> >>> My web application log4j.properties file is as follows if that helps: >>> >>> log4j.rootCategory=ERROR, logfile >>> >>> log4j.appender.logfile=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender >>> log4j.appender.logfile.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd >>> log4j.appender.logfile.File=/logs/tomcat/webapp.log >>> log4j.appender.logfile.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout >>> log4j.appender.logfile.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %p [%c] - %m%n >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Ashley >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To >>> unsubscribe, >>> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, >> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, >> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
