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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Specific pages show the message "No theme found for specified theme id custom_WAR_customtheme. Returning the default theme." in logs

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Daniel Couso

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Issue

  • The following warning message appears in logs:
[http-nio-8080-exec-13][ThemeLocalServiceImpl:220] No theme found for specified theme id custom_WAR_customtheme. Returning the default theme.

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
  • Quarterly Release: 2023.Q3, 2023.Q4, 2024.Q1

Resolution

  • This message can appear under the following circumstances:
    • The theme set for a page is not available.
    • The theme set for a page which is inherited from a set of public or private pages is not available.
  • Some reasons why the theme cannot be loaded may be:
    • The theme module could not load successfully at startup.
    • The theme has been renamed or its name has been altered after being configured for a page or a set of pages.
  • Regarding the theme's name, it is obtained by concatenating the three following items:
      1. ID specified in liferay-look-and-feel.xml file.
      2. The string _WAR_
      3. The Servlet Context name specified in a web.xml file inside the theme or the theme file's name without the .war extension if a web.xml file is not present.
      Finally, this string is processed by the method com.liferay.util.JS.getSafeName, which removes certain characters like dashes.
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