Log4j, Spring MVC, No appenders could be found for logger

Question

The log4j is working fine, however, at server startup, I am getting these warnings:

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.

It's implying the log4j.properties could not be found. But I am not sure how to fix that because everything seems to be working fine.

Answer 1

Place the spring Log4jConfigListener as the first listener in your web.xml.

<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener> 

You set upp the location of the log4j properties in a context-param but you do not need to do this if it is placed on the classpath.

An example is ..

<context-param>
    <param-name>log4jConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>/WEB-INF/resources/log4j.properties</param-value>
</context-param>