Grails - No Logging In Tomcat

Question

I cannot get grails log4j logging to work in Tomcat6. I previously thought the problem had to do with Production mode, but now I believe the issue is tomcat.

I have a l

Answer 1

It could be the way you define your environment in the DSL config I have similar setup: Grails 1.3.7 + Tomcat 6.0 this works great for me.

log4j = {
    environments {
        production {
        appenders {
            def catalinaBase = System.properties.getProperty('catalina.base')
            if (!catalinaBase) catalinaBase = '.'
            def logDirectory = "${catalinaBase}/logs"

            /* log file appender config & layout */
            appender new DailyRollingFileAppender(
                name:"logfile",
                file:"$logDirectory/logfilename.log",
                layout:pattern(conversionPattern: "%d{yy.MM.dd HH:mm:ss} [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n"),
                datePattern:"'.'yyyy-MM-dd",
                threshold: org.apache.log4j.Level.ERROR 
        }

        /* type of errors to log */
        error  'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.scaffolding.view.ScaffoldingViewResolver', 
               'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet',  //  controllers
               'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.pages', //  GSP
               'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.sitemesh', //  layouts
               'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping.filter', // URL mapping
               'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping', // URL mapping
               'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons', // class
               'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins', // plugins
               'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate', // hibernate
               'org.springframework', // spring
               'org.hibernate', // hibernate



        /* jetty, not required on tomcat */
        warn   'org.mortbay.log'


        /* root logger config */
        root {
            debug 'logfile'
            additivity = true
        }
    }//production

    development{
         /* add config for development evn*/
    }

    test{
         /* add config for test env*/
    } 

}//log4j

Answer 2

It had something to do with a bogus web-inf file that resided from a long time ago. This works correctly when that is not there.