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RE: Liferay change log file location in portal-log4j.xml

sandeep g, modified 9 Years ago.
Liferay change log file location in portal-log4j.xml
Junior Member Posts: 29 Join Date: 11/18/14 Recent Posts
I am trying to customize the log file name and location in cluster environment, so that each liferay instance creates it own log file.

I see this settings in portal-log4j.xml which tells the name and location of log file. My question is what is @spi.id@ property ?
<appender name="FILE" class="org.apache.log4j.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
<rollingPolicy class="org.apache.log4j.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
<param name="FileNamePattern" value="@liferay.home@/logs/liferay@spi.id@.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log" />
</rollingPolicy>

<layout class="org.apache.log4j.EnhancedPatternLayout">
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{ABSOLUTE} %-5p [%t][%c{1}:%L] %m%n" />
</layout>
</appender>

Can I set @spi.id@ system property with the server name in a cluster, so that each server will have its own log file. Or it is meant for any purpose in liferay ?

Lets say for liferay instance 1, I set spi.id system property as server1 and for liferay instance 2, I set system property spi.id as server2, so that each instance will log to a file like liferayserver1.05-05-2016 and liferayserver2.05.05.2016.

Please suggest.
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David H Nebinger, modified 9 Years ago.
RE: Liferay change log file location in portal-log4j.xml
Liferay Legend Posts: 14933 Join Date: 9/2/06 Recent Posts
Just create META-INF/portal-log4j-ext.xml files in each instance and set the different log files.
sandeep l, modified 9 Years ago.
RE: Liferay change log file location in portal-log4j.xml
Junior Member Posts: 29 Join Date: 11/18/14 Recent Posts
I am working on JBoss EAP. I tried to place META-INF/portal-log4j-ext.xml in com.liferay.portal module directory , but for some reason liferay is not finding it. I even kept it in a seperate jar and placed in com.liferay.portal modules directory still no luck.

Any suggestion on how to do it in Jboss EAP.
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Allen Ziegenfus, modified 6 Years ago.
RE: Liferay change log file location in portal-log4j.xml
New Member Posts: 11 Join Date: 12/29/15 Recent Posts
Actually this spi.id solution seems pretty elegant to me, especially in a cloud environment. 

I'm not sure what this variable was intended for but setting CATALINA_OPTS to -Dspi.id=$HOSTNAME helps to create instance specific log files that can be then stored in a shared volume
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Andrew Jardine, modified 9 Years ago.
RE: Liferay change log file location in portal-log4j.xml
Liferay Legend Posts: 2416 Join Date: 12/22/10 Recent Posts
Just to add some two cents around nomenclature. Refer to them as "servers" or "installations". the term INSTANCE means something very specific in Liferay as a single INSTALLATION of Liferay can manage multiple (Portal) Instances.