Play 1.7.1 - logging to application.log not working?

[pomegrn8]

Hi there,
I recently upgraded to Play 1.7.1 and have lost the ability to write to the application.log file. Any help greatly appreciated. I also am unclear on what changes to what configuration files are required for migrating to log4j2 (seems there are a variety of conflicting comments). And if anyone has a working version that migrates the basic Rolling logger example that would we awesome as well! Thanks in advance - and thanks to all the contributors keeping this framework alive. I love play 1.x!

[pomegrn8]

Welp, I suppose I just had to reach out for help before I figured it out. For anyone else, here is what I did:
add log4j2.xml to application/conf with the following (open to suggestion if this can be improved...):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Configuration status="INFO"> <Appenders> <RollingFile name="fileLogger" fileName="./application.log" filePattern="./app-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log"> <PatternLayout> <pattern>[%-5level] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %c{1} - %msg%n </pattern> </PatternLayout> <Policies> <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy interval="1" modulate="true" /> <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="10MB" /> </Policies> </RollingFile> </Appenders> <Loggers> <Root level="error"> <appender-ref ref="fileLogger" /> </Root> <Logger name="play" level="info" additivity="false"> <AppenderRef ref="fileLogger"/> </Logger> <Logger name="info" level="info"> <appender-ref ref="fileLogger" /> </Logger> </Loggers> </Configuration>