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Published Sep. 10, 2025

How to stop generating the redundant logs in {liferay_home}

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Kanchan Bisht

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Issue

  • Liferay logs are generated in multiple locations:
    • Users want to stop generating redundant logs in multiple locations.
      {liferay_home}/tomcat/logs/catalina.out
      {liferay_home}/logs/liferay.xyz.log
      {liferay_home}/logs/liferay.xyz.xml
    • Users want to remove historical logs from the company directory
      {liferay_home}/logs/companies/10132/liferay-xyz.log
      {liferay_home}/logs/companies/0/liferay-xyz.log

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.4
  • Quarterly Release 2023.Q1
  • Quarterly Release 2024.Q1

Resolution

  • For company logs, please set the following property to false 
    #
    # Set this to true to if each company should output its own log file. The
    # output format is defined in portal-impl/src/META-INF/portal-log4j.xml.
    #
    # Env: LIFERAYCOMPANYPERIODLOGPERIOD_ENABLED
    #
    company.log.enabled=true

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