<Set name="fileName">path/to/myaccess.xml</Set>
part should be *inside* the definition of the request log implementation, should look like this:
<Ref id="requestLog"><Set name="requestLog"><New id="requestLogImpl" class="ch.qos.logback.access.jetty.RequestLogImpl"><Set name="fileName">path/to/myaccess.xml</Set></New></Set></Ref>With the current docs Jetty doesn't even start up.