JBoss dumping access logs in ~/logs - jboss

Question

I have a weird problem where for a single application, JBoss (EAP 6.0.0) seems to be dumping access logs in my home dir at ~/logs. This is annoying to say the least.
My web application's jboss-web.xml file seems normal:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE jboss-web PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD Web Application 2.4//EN"
"http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-web_4_0.dtd">
<jboss-web>
<context-root>/moore</context-root>
<!-- http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/valve.html#Access_Log_Valve -->
<valve>
<class-name>org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve</class-name>
<param>
<param-name>prefix</param-name>
<param-value>access_log_moore_</param-value>
</param>
<param>
<param-name>suffix</param-name>
<param-value>.log</param-value>
</param>
<param>
<param-name>pattern</param-name>
<param-value>%h %A %l %u %t "%r" %s %b %T %I "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i"</param-value>
</param>
<param>
<param-name>resolveHosts</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</param>
<param>
<param-name>fileDateFormat</param-name>
<param-value>yyyy-MM-dd-HH</param-value>
</param>
</valve>
</jboss-web>
I can't seem to find anywhere that's telling it to dump logs in ~/logs and all other web applications log fine to the JBoss log directory. How can I debug where the misconfiguration is and get these logs back to the JBoss log directory?

Answer 1

I think the best approach to configure access logs in JBoss EAP 6.x is add this in domain:web subsystem.
Eg:
<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:web:1.4" default-virtual-server="default-host" native="false">
<connector name="http" protocol="HTTP/1.1" scheme="http" socket-binding="http"/>
<virtual-server name="default-host" enable-welcome-root="true">
<alias name="localhost"/>
<alias name="example.com"/>
<access-log pattern="%h %A %l %u %t "%r" %s %b %T %I "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i"" prefix="access_log_moore_" rotate="true">
<directory path="." relative-to="jboss.server.log.dir" />
</access-log>
</virtual-server>
</subsystem>
See also: JBoss EAP 6.0.1 Model Reference
However if you need/want use a valve configuration inside application with jboss-web.xml you must add attribute directory in your configuration with absolute path to log directory.
Eg:
<jboss-web>
<context-root>/moore</context-root>
<valve>
<!-- ... -->
<param>
<param-name>directory</param-name>
<param-value>/path/to/jboss/log/dir</param-value>
</param>
</valve>
</jboss-web>
directory
Absolute or relative pathname of a directory in which log files
created by this valve will be placed. If a relative path is specified,
it is interpreted as relative to $CATALINA_HOME. If no directory
attribute is specified, the default value is "logs" (relative to
$CATALINA_HOME).
In JBoss 7/EAP 6 $CATALINA_HOME is not set and the log is created in ~/logs (In your case).
Ref: https://docs.jboss.org/jbossweb/latest/config/valve.html
I hope this help.