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RE: Liferay 7.3, how to change the log directory

Olaf Kock, modified 3 Years ago.
Liferay 7.3, how to change the log directory
New Member Posts: 4 Join Date: 6/2/22 Recent Posts

We are deploying liferay image  as docker image where currently the default directory is "podname:/usr/local/liferay-ce-portal-7.3.5-ga6/logs"


​​​​​​​And we have a mountpoint attached in our cluster so we want to change the logs directory to "podname:/usr/local/mnt/logs/".


​​​​​​​can anyone please suggest?

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Olaf Kock, modified 3 Years ago.
RE: Liferay 7.3, how to change the log directory
Liferay Legend Posts: 6441 Join Date: 9/23/08 Recent Posts

Steps to Change the Liferay Logs Directory

  1. Unzip the files log4j.dtd and portal-log4j.xml from [Liferay WAR]/WEB-INF/lib/portal-impl.jar
  2. Move log4j.dtd and portal-log4j.xml to [Liferay WAR]/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF
  3. Rename portal-log4j.xml to portal-log4j-ext.xml
  4. Edit portal-log4j-ext.xml and delete all the category tags and keep only the needed tags, like the example below:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">

<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">

  <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>

  <root>
    <priority value="INFO" />
    <appender-ref ref="FILE" />
  </root>
</log4j:configuration>

In the param tag that contains: 

value="$liferay.home/logs/liferay@spi.id@.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log"

You must change $liferay.home/logs/liferay to the path where you want the logs to be created. See the following example:

value="/var/logs/liferay@spi.id@.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log" ​

Additional Information

The [LIFERAY_HOME]/logs files will still be created but will be empty files and not contain any data.