diff --git a/mifosng-provider/src/main/resources/logback.xml b/mifosng-provider/src/main/resources/logback.xml
index 683979fbd..efeacad10 100644
--- a/mifosng-provider/src/main/resources/logback.xml
+++ b/mifosng-provider/src/main/resources/logback.xml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   </appender>
 
   <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender">
-    <file>${catalina.home}/logs/mifos-platform.log</file>
+    <file>${catalina.base}/logs/mifos-platform.log</file>
     <append>true</append>
     <!-- encoders are assigned the type
          ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder by default -->