title: Spring boot logging to file does not work
body: <p>I build Spring boot project as WAR.</p>
  
  <p>Run it on Tomcat and can't see log file in expected directory.</p>
  
  <p>It is my POM files:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"&gt;
  &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
  
  &lt;groupId&gt;com.XXX.paymentService&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;payment-service&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;1.0-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;packaging&gt;war&lt;/packaging&gt;
  
  &lt;description&gt;Payment service (payment queue consumer-daemon)&lt;/description&gt;
  
  &lt;parent&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-parent&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;2.0.5.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/parent&gt;
  
  &lt;properties&gt;
      &lt;project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;
      &lt;project.reporting.outputEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.reporting.outputEncoding&gt;
      &lt;java.version&gt;1.8&lt;/java.version&gt;
      &lt;maven.compiler.source&gt;1.8&lt;/maven.compiler.source&gt;
      &lt;maven.compiler.target&gt;1.8&lt;/maven.compiler.target&gt;
  &lt;/properties&gt;
  
  &lt;build&gt;
      &lt;plugins&gt;
          &lt;plugin&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;/plugin&gt;
      &lt;/plugins&gt;
      &lt;finalName&gt;payment-service&lt;/finalName&gt;
  &lt;/build&gt;
  
  &lt;dependencies&gt;
  
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;javax.servlet-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;3.1.0&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
      &lt;!--
      | Tests
      --&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;junit&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;junit&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;4.12&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.mockito&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;mockito-core&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;2.23.0&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-test&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;1.5.3.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;com.h2database&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;h2&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;1.4.194&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
      &lt;!--
      | Core
      --&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-web&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-data-jpa&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.hibernate&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;hibernate-core&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.hibernate&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;hibernate-entitymanager&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;mysql&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;mysql-connector-java&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;8.0.11&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.json&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;json&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;20160810&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
      &lt;!--
      | JMS
      --&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-activemq&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.activemq&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;activemq-broker&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;com.fasterxml.jackson.core&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;jackson-databind&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
      &lt;!--
      | Soap support
      --&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.httpcomponents&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;httpclient&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;4.5.6&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
  
  
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;javax.xml.bind&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;jaxb-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;2.2.11&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;com.sun.xml.bind&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;jaxb-core&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;2.2.11&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;com.sun.xml.bind&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;jaxb-impl&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;2.2.11&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;javax.activation&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;activation&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;1.1.1&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
  &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>I have properties files with line</p>
  
  <pre><code>logging.file=/opt/tomcat/logs/payment-service.log
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and expect for log file, but it does not work. All logs writing to catalina.out.</p>
  
  <p>I thought it is problem with access to dir, but </p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo chmod 0777 ./
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>has no effect.</p>
  
  <p>What is wrong with my project?</p>