Question

As you are using embedded tomcat so might be you can help me.

I am starting the tomcat using

some code

tomcat.start();

some code

and tomcat is getting started successfully but tomcat logs (talking about tomcat specific logs) are not getting generated in tomcat log folder.But when i start non embaded tomcat(through startup.sh) then logs are getting generated in log folder of tomcat.

Do you have any idea.whats the issue.Do we need to specify the path(or enable logs) programatically in case of embedded tomcat.

Answer 1

Look at catalina.sh – it has parameter CATALINA_OUT, saying

#     CATALINA_OUT  (Optional) Full path to a file where stdout and stderr
#                   will be redirected.
#                   Default is $CATALINA_BASE/logs/catalina.out

Then later in the same script, it is used like this:

"$_RUNJAVA" <....lots of other parameters among multiple lines.....> \
  org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap "$@" start \
  >> "$CATALINA_OUT" 2>&1 &

So, as you can see, Tomcat startup script redirects stdout to the catalina.out.

If you run Tomcat yourself, redirect its stdout elsewhere or look at LOGGING_CONFIG parameter how to override this.