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I'm trying to run the example in the tutorial on Tomcat, and it can't instantiate the VelocityEngine
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## Tomcat Says

## Solution

(Thanks to Keith Lea!)

It turns out Velocity's Avalon logging system was trying to write to my Tomcat folder.

So that it's on file somewhere for other people, I will describe the solution:

- I created a file "`velocity.properties`" and placed it in my `WEB-INF/classes` folder.
- Inside the file I wrote:

This stops Velocity from logging, and the example application now works.