On 27.01.2011 16:11, Giorgio Maria Santini wrote:

Hello,

I'm trying to have my webapps logging with logback framework. I'm coming from a shell application where I've successfully had my logs handled by logback with no problems. Now I'm quite confusing using it with Tomcat.

I've read about logback-access http://logback.qos.ch/access.html and it seems ok, but I don't understand where to put my config file for logback. Well, each of my webapps should have their own logback.xml configuration file, but in the manual it says to put the file in the global ${tomcat_home}/config folder, like to deny deploying a webapp with its configuration file under WEB-INF/classes path.

Hi Giorgio, Do keep in mind that logback-access is for access logging, i.e. logs generated by the container to inform the administator about requests made to the container. A rypical access log entry looks like the following (on one line): 127.0.0.1 - frank [10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700] "GET /apache_pb.gif \ HTTP/1.0" 200 2326 Logback-access is installed at the container level, in your case Tomcat. In contrast, logback-classic is installed at the level of the web-application to handle logs generated by your software via calls made to the slf4j api. Does this help? -- Ceki