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

[Dawson Mossman]

Thanks, so in my example below ... what would I need to use for the 
relative path?


On 08/11/2010 3:52 PM, Ceki Gülcü wrote:
> 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
>
>
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