Hi, I'm still trying to fix the problem with the welcome file not working, but my logging going wrong has trumped that little problem.
I had it working fine using log4j - here's my properties file: log4j.rootLogger=info, logfile log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %p [%c] - <%m>%n log4j.appender.logfile=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender log4j.appender.logfile.File=C:/Tomcat 6.0/logs/sf.log log4j.appender.logfile.MaxFileSize=1024KB # Keep three backup files log4j.appender.logfile.MaxBackupIndex=3 log4j.appender.logfile.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout #Pattern to output : date priority [category] - <message>line_separator log4j.appender.logfile.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n log4j.logger.com.starfriend=DEBUG org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig = SEVERE org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig = SEVERE org.apache.catalina.session.ManagerBase = SEVERE org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener=SEVERE log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina=SEVERE This gave me just the logging I was after. After a reload, all that good, as expected logging disappeared, and now I just get DEBUG output such as: 20:13:10,722 DEBUG WebappClassLoader:1238 - loadClass(com.starfriend.astro.drawings.DrawingsController, false) 20:13:10,723 DEBUG WebappClassLoader:1254 - Returning class from cache and DEBUG HostConfig:1088 - Checking context[/host-manager] reload resource C:\Tomcat 6.0\conf\web.xml 20:20:34,881 DEBUG HostConfig:1088 - Checking context[/host-manager] reload resource C:\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\host-manager\META-INF\context.xml 20:20:34,883 DEBUG WebappClassLoader:704 - modified() 20:20:34,941 DEBUG ManagerBase:680 - Start expire sessions StandardManager at 1212261634941 sessioncount 0 20:20:34,942 DEBUG ManagerBase:688 - End expire sessions StandardManager processingTime 1 expired sessions: 0 Mb's of the stuff. I've had this problem before and it went away without my finding out the cause. Now that same issue is back. I have reloaded, stopped and started Tomcat, looked all around for files that shouldn't be there, but no luck. Has anyone come across this error before? Thanks, John