Re: Configuring Tomcat to use log4j2 - not working, probably a, trivial error in log4j2.xml

Answering myself... it is as simple as putting all of those jars and 
conf folder in the Java Classpath used to launch Tomcat, it ends up 
showing inside of Tomcat too, so it ends up working fine even if the 
configuration is a bit ugly.

On 1/10/2022 11:27 AM, Bruno Melloni wrote:
> Update:
>
> So, I had got it to work by putting the following code in catalina.bat.
> Then based on the recommendations on this thread I removed it from
> catalina.bat and created a setenv.bat with the exact same lines.
>
> rem LOG4J config
> set 
> "CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%CATALINA_HOME%\log4j2\lib\log4j-api-2.17.1.jar"
> set 
> "CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%CATALINA_HOME%\log4j2\lib\log4j-core-2.17.1.jar"
> set
> "CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%CATALINA_HOME%\log4j2\lib\log4j-appserver-2.17.1.jar" 
>
> set "CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%CATALINA_HOME%\log4j2\conf"
>
> Works like a charm from the command line but gets ignored when launched
> as a windows service.
>
> I could not find the syntax for adding things (like log4j) to the
> classpath on tomcat9w, does anybody know what it is?
>
>
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