--------------PROBLEM--------------
No matter what I do log4j2 wont find the configuration file in the class path. gives this error:

ERROR StatusLogger No log4j2 configuration file found. Using default configuration: logging only errors to the console.

--------------PROJECT STRUCTURE--------------
Testing
    src
        main
            java
                testing
                    App
            resources
                log4j2.yml
    pom.xml

--------------pom.xml--------------

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>testing</groupId>
  <artifactId>testingid</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>

  <name>testingid</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

  <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
  </properties>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
      <version>2.6.2</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
      <version>2.6.2</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.5.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <mainClass>testing.App</mainClass>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

--------------App.java--------------

package testing;

import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;

public class App
{

    private final static Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger();

    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        System.out.println( "Hello World!" );
    }
}

--------------log4j2.yml--------------(copied from some tutorial, i have also tried an xml file instead same result)

configuration:
  name: Default
  properties:
    property:
    - name: log-path
      value: logs
    - name: archive
      value: ${log-path}/archive
  appenders:
    Console:
      PatternLayout:
        pattern: '[%-5level] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %c{1} - %msg%n'
      name: Console-Appender
      target: SYSTEM_OUT
    File:
      PatternLayout:
        pattern: '[%-5level] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %c{1} - %msg%n'
      fileName: ${log-path}/logfile.log
      name: File-Appender
    RollingFile:
      DefaultRolloverStrategy:
        max: '30'
      PatternLayout:
        pattern: '[%-5level] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %c{1} - %msg%n'
      Policies:
        SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy:
          size: 1 KB
      fileName: ${log-path}/rollingfile.log
      filePattern: ${archive}/rollingfile.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd-hh-mm}.gz
      name: RollingFile-Appender
  loggers:
    logger:
      additivity: 'false'
      appender-ref:
      - level: info
        ref: Console-Appender
      - level: error
        ref: File-Appender
      - level: debug
        ref: RollingFile-Appender
      level: debug
      name: guru.springframework.blog.log4j2json
    root:
      appender-ref:
        ref: Console-Appender
      level: debug