Issue

During boot up process, JBoss EAP throws java.io.FileNotFoundException[1], and there is no server.log file in the target directory.
Even creating a server.log manually, JBoss EAP does not write any log to it.

[1]

log4j:ERROR Failed to create directory structure: /var/log/sample_path
log4j error: setFile(null,true) call failed.
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /var/log/sample_path/server.log (No such file or directory)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:221)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:142)
    at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.setFile(FileAppender.java:289)