I had assumed the CWD (current working directory) of the property import was relative to the location of logback.xml. I have determined that the property import is relative to where the Tomcat JVM started. For my application this is $TOMCAT_HOME/bin -Dennis -----Original Message----- From: logback-user-bounces@qos.ch [mailto:logback-user-bounces@qos.ch] On Behalf Of Dennis Halladay Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 11:36 AM To: logback-user@qos.ch Subject: [logback-user] not finding property file import fromWEB-INF/classes/logback.xml I am using logback in a Tomcat 6/Spring application. Most of our property files are under WEB-INF. I am getting the following error trying to import a property file. 11:25:41,110 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext[default] - Found resource [logback.xml] at [file:/C:/Program%20Files/Apache%20Software%20Foundation/Tomcat%206.0/we bapps/PharmaServices/WEB-INF/classes/logback.xml] 11:25:41,449 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.ConfigurationAction - debug attribute not set 11:25:41,453 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.PropertyAction - Could not read properties file [../jdbc.properties]. java.io.FileNotFoundException: ..\jdbc.properties (The system cannot find the file specified) logback.xml contains: <configuration> <property file="../jdbc.properties" /> Any suggestions? What happens once I jar up the contents of classes and move to the lib directory? Thanks, -Dennis _______________________________________________ Logback-user mailing list Logback-user@qos.ch http://qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/logback-user