For my application in Glassfish 4.1.1 I'm configuring path to properties file in web.xml
:
<context-param>
<param-name>log4jConfiguration</param-name>
<param-value>file:///G:/log4j2.properties</param-value>
</context-param>
My properties file:
name=LoggingProperties
property.filename = logs
appenders = console, file
appender.console.type = Console
appender.console.name = STDOUT
appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
appender.console.layout.pattern = [%-5level] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %c{1} - %msg%n
appender.file.type = File
appender.file.name = LOGFILE
appender.file.fileName=${filename}/propertieslogs.log
appender.file.layout.type=PatternLayout
appender.file.layout.pattern=[%-5level] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %c{1} - %msg%n
loggers=file
logger.file.name=com.ax
logger.file.level = debug
logger.file.appenderRefs = file
logger.file.appenderRef.file.ref = LOGFILE
rootLogger.level = debug
rootLogger.appenderRefs = stdout
rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref = STDOUT
Whenever I will put my file it is always showing: ERROR StatusLogger No log4j2 configuration file found. Using default configuration