Linux – generate stderr log file in tomcat under linux

Fairly simple one that i have seen works like this.

Create a file in /etc/logrotate.d called tomcat containing the following:-

/var/log/tomcat/catalina.out { 
  copytruncate 
  daily 
  rotate 7 
  compress 
  missingok 
}

This runs daily, compresses the file, and keeps 7 days worth (rotate 7). copytruncate means that it'll copy then truncate the original file so that there is no need to restart tomcat. missing ok will not error if it's not there.

The access.log Valve can be changed to not rotate by adding rotatable=false:-

<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve
     ...
     ...
     suffix="log" rotatable="false" />

I never had much success configuring it unless the virtual directory used the name jakarta and nothing else. The conf and logs directories needed to be subdirectories of the ISAPI installation directory.

If you created those .properties files using a right-click and New Text Document, that Windows didn't add a .txt extension to them.

Finally, use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost in your workers.properties. I don't know why but it doesn't work using localhost on Windows 2012.