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Published Sep. 10, 2025

How to override Liferay logs configuration

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Mariano Alvaro

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Issue

  • How to override Liferay logs default configuration.

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.4

Resolution

  • Liferay logs default configuration is defined in WEB-INF/shielded-container-lib/portal-impl.jar inside the file portal-log4j.xml. The fastest way to override it is:
  1. Extract portal-log4j.xml from portal-impl.jar
  2. Copy the extracted file to WEB-INF/classes/META-INF
  3. Rename the file from portal-log4j.xml to portal-log4j-ext.xml
  4. Apply the desired configuration.

 

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