In EnvironmentPropertyConfigurer.java propertyUrl = getResource(StringUtils.strip(loc)); if (propertyUrl != null) { found = true; log.debug("Loading property file at {} from {}", loc, propertyUrl); ... } log.debug("Property file not found at {}", loc); is quite misleading: at runtime you'll read "Loading property ..." always followed by "Property file not found". Attached is a patch with a more correct and sloghtly more verbose log.