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Last modified by Antoine Mottier on 2023/07/17

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edited by Vincent Massol
on 2007/07/23
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edited by Vincent Massol
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3 3  XWiki uses Commons Logging for logging. By default XWiki is configured so that Commons Logging uses log4J. XWiki's Log4J configuration is located inside XWiki's JAR (xwiki.jar), in a <tt>[log4j.properties>http://fisheye2.cenqua.com/browse/~raw,r=trunk/xwiki/xwiki-platform/core/trunk/src/main/resources/log4j.properties]</tt> file. XWiki' JAR is itself located in your <tt>WEB-INF/lib/</tt> directory.
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5 +#info("By default XWiki is configured to log everythinf both on the console and in a xwiki.log file located in the directory from where you have started the JVL. This is usually the directory from where you have started your application server/Servlet container. It's recommended to either start the JVM from a location where it's ok to output the xwiki.log file or to create a custom Log4J configuration as explained below.")
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5 5  1.1 Using a custom Log4J configuration
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7 7  The best solution is to create a new <tt>log4j.properties</tt> file in your <tt>WEB-INF/classes</tt> directory. It'll thus override the one from the XWiki JAR. As an example, here's a sample configuration:

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