topic Re: Log4j.properties for Share on separate Tomcat in Alfresco Archive

Log4j.properties for Share on separate Tomcat

dynabix — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 20:12:24 GMT

HiI am using Share on a separate Tomcat and want to adapt the location of the log-file for Share. For the Alfresco app itself I managed to do this by creating shared/classes/alfresco/extension/alfresco-log4j.properties under the Alfresco Tomcat directory and set te logfile location in there.I tried

Re: Log4j.properties for Share on separate Tomcat

kavilash23 — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 05:43:08 GMT

Hello,

Try to change the default share log4j.properties located at $TOMCAT-HOME/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties)

Re: Log4j.properties for Share on separate Tomcat

santoshbaradwaj — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 06:27:00 GMT

Go through the below link it might be useful.

http://santoshpydisetti.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/alfresco-module-specific-logging/

Re: Log4j.properties for Share on separate Tomcat

dynabix — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:14:13 GMT

Hello Kavi

Thanks for the suggestion, but this file will be overwritten when the share.war is changed or redeployed. The same will happen in the Alfresco webapp with the file "$ALFRESCO-TOMCAT-HOME/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties". Therefore Alfresco made it possible to define a separate custom log4j-file "$ALFRESCO-TOMCAT-HOME/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/alfresco-log4j.properties". However creating a similar file "$SHARE-TOMCAT-HOME/shared/classes/share/extension/share-log4j.properties" does not do the trick for Share.

Re: Log4j.properties for Share on separate Tomcat

dynabix — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:53:26 GMT

I found this post which explains that what I want is not possible:
http://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/alfresco-share-development/overriding-share-log4j-development-08132012

I guess that still is the case.

Thanks for the reactions anyway.

Regards,
David

Re: Log4j.properties for Share on separate Tomcat

julienguay — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:59:58 GMT

I was looking for a solution and found that by trying and I/O tracing:
This can be done (I tested in 4.2.0.12, 5.1.0.5 and 5.1.1.0):
cp tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/share/extension/log4j.properties tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/share-log4j.properties
edit share-log4j.properties for value:
log4j.appender.File.File=/logs/share.log #linux
log4j.appender.File.File=C:/logs/share.log #windows