I've trying to implement RollingAppender for general log files in sitecore 8.1 update 2 solutions.
The moment I change below
<appender name="LogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.SitecoreLogFileAppender, Sitecore.Logging">
<file value="$(dataFolder)/logs/log.{date}.txt" />
<appendToFile value="true" />
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%4t %d{ABSOLUTE} %-5p %m%n" />
</layout>
<encoding value="utf-8" />
</appender>
to
<appender name="LogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender, Sitecore.Logging">
<file value="$(dataFolder)/logs/log.{date}.txt" />
<appendToFile value="true" />
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%4t %d{ABSOLUTE} %-5p %m%n" />
</layout>
<encoding value="utf-8" />
</appender>
the log files are not creating.
Exact config I am using in solution is:
<appender name="LogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender, Sitecore.Logging">
<file value="$(dataFolder)/logs/log" />
<appendToFile value="true" />
<datePattern value="yyyyMMdd".txt"" />
<rollingStyle value="Composite" />
<maxSizeRollBackups value="-1" />
<maximumFileSize value="50KB" />
<preserveLogFileNameExtension value="true" />
<staticLogFileName value="false" />
<immediateFlush value="true"/>
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%4t %d{ABSOLUTE} %-5p %m%n" />
</layout>
<encoding value="utf-8" />
</appender>
What am I missing here?