[LOG4J2-1024] log4j2.xml not found by default in WEB-INF folder

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.3
• Fix Version/s: 2.5
• Component/s: Configurators

Environment

Tested on
Windows 7 + Eclipse Juno + tomcat 7.0.62
and
CentOS 6.2 + tomcat 7.0.61

• Assignee: Remko Popma
• Reporter: Patrick Zimmermann
• Created: 21/May/15 12:51
• Updated: 01/Nov/15 16:24
• Resolved: 01/Nov/15 16:23

Description

I have a web application, included log4j-api-2.3, log4j-core-2.3 and log4j-web-2.3 and placed a log4j2.xml file in the WEB-INF folder.
On application startup I receive the following message:
ERROR StatusLogger No Log4j context configuration provided. This is very unusual.
ERROR StatusLogger No log4j2 configuration file found. Using default configuration: logging only errors to the console.

When I add
<context-param>
<param-name>log4jConfiguration</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/log4j2.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
to my web.xml the error notification disappears.

According to the documentation at http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/webapp.html Log4J2 should search a file starting with log4j2 in the WEB-INF folder if no context-param is specified.
It seems, this does not happen.