[LOG4J2-704] -Dlog4j.configurationFile no longer accepts relative paths

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-rc2
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.1
• Component/s: Configurators

Environment

Ubuntu. Oracle Java 1.7.

• Assignee: Remko Popma
• Reporter: Andy Grove
• Created: 08/Jul/14 18:03
• Updated: 29/Jul/14 15:48
• Resolved: 29/Jul/14 15:48

Description

I just upgraded from beta9 to rc2 and my command line applications now fail on startup.

I am passing -Dlog4j.configurationFile=conf/log4j2.xml

The documentation does not state that relative paths are no longer supported but the error indicates that only absolute paths can now be used.

[java] ERROR StatusLogger Unable to access conf/log4j2.xml java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI is not absolute
[java] at java.net.URI.toURL(URI.java:1095)
[java] at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.ConfigurationFactory.getInputFromUri(ConfigurationFactory.java:265)
[java] at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.ConfigurationFactory$Factory.getConfiguration(ConfigurationFactory.java:382)
[java] at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.reconfigure(LoggerContext.java:415)
[java] at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:146)
[java] at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:75)
[java] at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:37)
[java] at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getContext(LogManager.java:268)
[java] at org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory$PrivateManager.getContext(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:98)
[java] at org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory.getContext(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:84)
[java] at org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory.getLogger(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:44)
[java] at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:270)
[java] at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:281)