“log4j:configuration” must match “(renderer….loggerFactory)?)”

Question

getting error, when deploying my war file to tomcat:

log4j:WARN The content of element type "log4j:configuration" must match "(renderer*,throwableRenderer?,appender*,plugin*,(category|logger)*,root?,(categoryFactory|loggerFactory)?)" 

I googled around and found out that ordering of my log4j.xml could be wrong, but it should be correct.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>   <!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">  <log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">      <appender name="console" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">       <param name="Target" value="System.out"/>       <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">         <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%-5p %d %c %x - %m%n"/>       </layout>     </appender>      <root>       <priority value ="error" />       <appender-ref ref="console" />     </root>      <category name="org.springframework" additivity="false">       <priority value="info" />       <appender-ref ref="console" />     </category>    </log4j:configuration> 

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

According to the error message, the DTD expects all category elements to be ahead of the root element. You have them the wrong way round.