There is no guarantee where the current working directory is set for a web application (which is what a relative path works from). You can, however, ask the JVM where it got the byte code from for a given class, by using http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.lang/ClassOrigin.html // Get the location of this class Class cls = this.getClass(); ProtectionDomain pDomain = cls.getProtectionDomain(); CodeSource cSource = pDomain.getCodeSource(); URL loc = cSource.getLocation(); // file:/c:/almanac14/examples/ (works for jar files too). You can then make the information available to logback and refer to ${myvariable}/logback.properties. /Thorbjørn -----Original Message----- From: logback-user-bounces@qos.ch [mailto:logback-user-bounces@qos.ch] On Behalf Of Dawson Mossman Sent: 8. november 2010 15:37 To: Logback-user@qos.ch Subject: Re: [logback-user] How to reference file one level above the web context Has anyone had to do this type of thing before? If I cannot use a relative path, are there recommendations for an alternative approach? On 05/11/2010 5:24 PM, Dawson Mossman wrote:
I am trying to use the <property file="logback.properties" /> tag in my logback.xml file to reference an external settings file. I want to use a relative path and specify the file one level above my application context. For example:
<web server root>/apps/myapplication/web-inf/classes/logback.xml
I want to put the logback.properties file at <web server root>/apps/. Do you know what relative path I need to use to do this?
I've tried everything I can think of, including the following, but they did not work: <property file="../logback.properties" /> <property file="../../../logback.properties" /> <property file="/logback.properties" /> <property file="./logback.properties" />
Please help ... there has to be a way without using an absolute path! Dawson
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