[opencms-dev] setting up proper logging (log4j) in opencms 9.5.0

[Christoph Kukulies]

Am 05.01.2015 um 16:13 schrieb Christoph Kukulies:
> While tracing down errors in startup of the OpenCms 9.5.0 redirect 
> (/sites/default - Demo Content)
> I'm missing something like opencms_init.log (although configured in 
> log4j.properties in WEB-INF/classes) or opencms.log
> (which was there but with 0 bytes and dated Feb 18th, 2014).
>
> So, the essence is: where does Opencms write its log or how does one 
> configute log4j (if required at all)?
>
OK, I did another 9.5.0 install and the good news is that without any 
changes to opencms-system.xml
the url http://cms.mysite.de:8880/opencms/overview (locally on the 
installed server) works fine and also
accessing it remotely through http://cms.mysite.de/overview (with 
rewriting and stripping /opencms)
works as well.

The not so good news: opencms_init.log as well as opencms_search.log 
together with a bunch of backup logs and other stuff clobbers
the tomcat6 home directory c:\Program Files\Apache_Group\Tomcat_6.0.39 
(in my peculiar case).

Looks like I don't need special installation of log4j, but a better fine 
tuned configuration of the logfile paths might be
desirable.


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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de