Logs are not recorded using CustomRequestLog

[HemanthKarniyana]

Jetty Version
12.0.14

Jetty Environment

ee8

Java Version
17

Question

Am trying to record the http request logs into a file using RequestLogWriter and CustomRequestLog as follows :
With the below setup, the file is getting created /tmp/example-2024_11_27.request.log but the logs are not getting recorded, any suggestion would be great help. Thank you.

<Configure id="Example" class="org.eclipse.jetty.ee8.webapp.WebAppContext">
  <New id="RequestLogWriter" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.RequestLogWriter">
      <Set name="filename">/tmp/example-yyyy_mm_dd.request.log</Set>
      <Set name="filenameDateFormat"><Property name="jetty.requestlog.filenameDateFormat" default="yyyy_MM_dd"/></Set>
  </New>

  <New id="RequestLogImpl" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.CustomRequestLog">
      <Arg><Ref refid="RequestLogWriter"/></Arg>
      <Arg>
        <Property name="jetty.customrequestlog.formatString">
          <Default>%{client}a - %u %t \"%r\" %s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"</Default>
        </Property>
      </Arg>
  </New>

  <Call name="setServer">
    <Arg>
      <New id="Server" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server">
          <Set name="RequestLog"><Ref refid="RequestLogImpl"/></Set>
      </New>
    </Arg>
  </Call>
</Configure>

[joakime]

The RequestLog doesn't belong in a WebAppContext configuration.
That's far too late.

This should be done at startup of the Server.

Just enable the requestlog module, and configure it in ${jetty.base}/start.d/requestlog.ini

[HemanthKarniyana]

I have multiple webapps running in a server and i want to seperate the requestlogs based on the WebAppContext, how can i achieve this using requestLog module.

[HemanthKarniyana]

Hi @joakime any suggestions on the above comment.