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I have installed Tomcat 7 on an Amazon EC2 running Amazon Linux. I have installed a WAR file on tomcat and I am using java.util.logging for logging messages in my code. Now how to access those log messages in Amazon EC2?

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The standard location for Tomcat log files is:

/var/log/tomcat
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  • There is folder tomcat7 at the location you suggested but I cannot cd into it. How do I access log file?
    – Gaurav Agarwal
    Jul 3, 2012 at 19:46
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    Try to su as root user first: su -, or use sudo before your commands, e.g.: sudo ls -al /var/log/tomcat7 to see the directory content.
    – David Levesque
    Jul 3, 2012 at 19:55
  • Thanks, it worked. If I may ask which file will have Log.log() from my Servlets.
    – Gaurav Agarwal
    Jul 3, 2012 at 20:16
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    I would look in catalina.out first or one of the files starting with localhost. If you still don't find it, you can sort the files by date using ls -ltr to see the ones recently modified.
    – David Levesque
    Jul 3, 2012 at 20:20
  • I have asked a related question here superuser.com/questions/444572/…
    – Gaurav Agarwal
    Jul 3, 2012 at 20:34

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