Filipp Gunbin created LOG4J2-2642: ------------------------------------- Summary: [doc] Mention first Tomcat versions supporting classpath: URLs Key: LOG4J2-2642 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2642 Project: Log4j 2 Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Filipp Gunbin
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/webapp.html says that "classpath:" urls can be used in log4jConfiguration context-param, but such url gives error on old Tomcat (7.0.30): {code}ERROR StatusLogger Invalid URL classpath:/my/path java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: classpath at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:600) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:490) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:439) at java.net.URI.toURL(URI.java:1089) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.ConfigurationSource.fromUri(ConfigurationSource.java:248) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.ConfigurationFactory.getConfiguration(ConfigurationFactory.java:238) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.ConfigurationFactory$Factory.getConfiguration(ConfigurationFactory.java:370) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:238) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator.initialize(Configurator.java:158) at org.apache.logging.log4j.web.Log4jWebInitializerImpl.initializeNonJndi(Log4jWebInitializerImpl.java:174) at org.apache.logging.log4j.web.Log4jWebInitializerImpl.start(Log4jWebInitializerImpl.java:112) at org.apache.logging.log4j.web.Log4jServletContextListener.contextInitialized(Log4jServletContextListener.java:56) {code} The support is present in Tomcat 7 >= 7.0.66 and Tomcat 8.0 >= 8.0.28 (see https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56777), the doc could mention it. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)