spring-boot: tomcat: if management port is different from the app port, the app's access.log goes to /tmp/tomcat.xxxxx.port [SPR-12220]

[spring-projects-issues]

Simon So opened SPR-12220 and commented

spring-boot 1.1.6

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23596157/spring-boot-tomcat-access-logs

The issue exists since 1.1

Steps to reproduce

1. in application.properties, define management port = 7081
2. in application.properties, define the app port to be anything but 7081
3. in application.properties, set the server.tomcat.base=/home/mydir
4. Start the spring-boot project with tomcat as the web server

expected: access log goes to /home/mydir
actual: after a few days, the access.log will suddenly appears in /tmp/tomcat.xxxx.port_number

I have cloud deployment that needs to do log rotation. Prefer to centralize everything to one single directory.

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Affects: 4.0.6

[spring-projects-issues]

Juergen Hoeller commented

Note that this JIRA is the Spring Framework issue tracker. We do not deal with Spring Boot issues here.

The Spring Boot project uses GitHub issues instead: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues. Please report your issue there.