Why JBoss is unable to find a path while creating an access log?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • JBoss throws following ERROR stackTrace while enabling access.log for JBoss EAP 6.
16:57:07,750 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-7) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.web.host.default-host: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.web.host.default-host: Failed to start service
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1767) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: JBAS014847: Could not find a path called 'server-name'
    at org.jboss.as.controller.services.path.PathManagerService.resolveRelativePathEntry(PathManagerService.java:91)
    at org.jboss.as.web.WebVirtualHostService.start(WebVirtualHostService.java:84)
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
    ... 3 more
  • Access log configuration looks like below:
       <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:web:1.5" default-virtual-server="default-host" native="false">
            <connector name="http" protocol="HTTP/1.1" scheme="http" socket-binding="http" redirect-port="443" max-save-post-size="4096"/>
            <virtual-server name="default-host" enable-welcome-root="true">
                <alias name="localhost"/>
                <alias name="example.com"/>
                <access-log pattern="%{X-Forwarded-For}i %h %l %u %t %r %s %b %{Referer}i %{User-Agent}i %S %T" prefix="access.log.">
                    <directory path="${jboss.server.name}" relative-to="${jboss.server.log.dir}"/>
                </access-log>
            </virtual-server>
        </subsystem>

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 6.x

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