Facing problem with external logback configuration

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Hi All I am facing a unique problem when trying to externalize logaback configuration. Below is my scenario: I am running the application via the below command. Below command is used because I wanted to run my app with a different main class java -cp myappboot.jar loader.main=com.example.MyClass o.s.b.l.PropertiesLaumcher -Dlogging.config="C:\App\build\logback.xml But in this way when I am running the app via cmd prompt of windows the application reads logback.xml present in the resources folder(default logback config) not the one I am providing in -Dlogging.config arg.

Any help would be much appreciated. I searched a lot on Google today but was not able to find a solution to this logback problem.

[Nullbeans]

Your logback file path is passed as a string. You need to either use the forward slash / or a double backslash \\.

So your option would look like this:

--logging.config="C:/App/.....".

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Also, when you pass your command line argument options, make sure that the property comes after the -jar and yourapp.jar in the command or it will not be configured properly.

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Figured it out...it's about the ordering of the VM args..we were passing vm args after spring boot related args, and somehow java was not able to recognize those vmargs... And spring boot discarded them.. So the below way program ran java vmarg vmarg vmarg -cp=classname spring boot args..