title: Spring MVC log messages not showing
body: <p>In my pom file I have added:</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;log4j&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;log4j&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;1.2.17&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and <strong>properties</strong> file I have </p>
  
  <pre><code># Root logger option
  log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, stdout, file
  
  # Redirect log messages to console
  log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
  log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out
  log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
  log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
  
  # Redirect log messages to a log file
  log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
  #outputs to Tomcat home
  log4j.appender.file.File=/home/preeti/myapp.log
  log4j.appender.file.MaxFileSize=5MB
  log4j.appender.file.MaxBackupIndex=10
  log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
  log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But Still I am not getting any log messages.why? </p>