[logback-user] How to reference file one level above the web context

[Ceki Gülcü]

Hello Dawson,

Contrary to spring for example, logback relative paths are relative to 
the current working directory and not relative to the referencing file.

HTH,

On 08/11/2010 3:37 PM, Dawson Mossman wrote:
> Has anyone had to do this type of thing before? If I cannot use a
> relative path, are there recommendations for an alternative approach?
>
>
> On 05/11/2010 5:24 PM, Dawson Mossman wrote:
>> I am trying to use the <property file="logback.properties" /> tag in
>> my logback.xml file to reference an external settings file. I want to
>> use a relative path and specify the file one level above my
>> application context. For example:
>>
>> <web server root>/apps/myapplication/web-inf/classes/logback.xml
>>
>> I want to put the logback.properties file at <web server root>/apps/.
>> Do you know what relative path I need to use to do this?
>>
>> I've tried everything I can think of, including the following, but
>> they did not work:
>> <property file="../logback.properties" />
>> <property file="../../../logback.properties" />
>> <property file="/logback.properties" />
>> <property file="./logback.properties" />
>>
>> Please help ... there has to be a way without using an absolute path!
>> Dawson