[opencms-dev] Configuration problems after changing logging configuration

[Erik-Jan Spaans]

Hi All,

After installation of OpenCMS 6 beta 1 (what a smooth installation 
procedure!) on Tomcat 5.0.24. my OpenCMS instance worked just fine.
Now I changed the opencms.properties file as follows
...
old:
log.log4j.configuration=this
new:
log.log4j.configuration=
...
So I left it blank, as the documentation suggests, to be able to 
configure log4j elsewhere (in common/classes to be precise).
As a result (apparently), the OpenCMSServlet fails to startup. When 
accessing a resource, e.g. http://localhost:8080/opencms/opencms, an 
HTTP Status 500 error message is shown, reading: "OpenCms not properly 
configured".
When accessing another resource in the opencms webapp, e.g. 
http://localhost:8080/opencms/setup, the setup wizard shows up as 
expected. So the webapplication is more or less deployed OK, only the 
OpenCmsServlet is not.

Anybody any idea wether my change could cause the OpenCmsServlet not to 
start up as it should? I looked into the source and saw that parsing the 
properties file (and of course the logging properties in there) plays an 
important role in initing the OpenCmsServlet, so sth. might go wrong 
there....

Best regards,
EJ