diff --git a/ccm-core/build-hooks.xml b/ccm-core/build-hooks.xml
index 9113b2501..19d732889 100755
--- a/ccm-core/build-hooks.xml
+++ b/ccm-core/build-hooks.xml
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@
           unless="this.deploy.dir" />
     <!-- deploy the log4j configuration file into the web applications
          document root tree                                                 -->
-    <copy todir="${this.deploy.dir}/WEB-INF"
-          file="${src.dir}/log4j2.xml"/>
+    <!--copy todir="${this.deploy.dir}/WEB-INF"
+          file="${src.dir}/log4j2.xml"/-->
     <!-- project.xml moved to bundle cfg directory where it replaces
          former application.cfg                                            -->
     <xslt style="${ccm.tools.xsl.dir}/build-version.xsl" 
diff --git a/ccm-core/lib/log4j-web-2.8.2.jar b/ccm-core/lib/log4j-web-2.8.2.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cb20edae5
Binary files /dev/null and b/ccm-core/lib/log4j-web-2.8.2.jar differ
diff --git a/ccm-core/src/log4j2.xml b/ccm-core/src/log4j2.xml
index ba6f9d8dd..86d400613 100644
--- a/ccm-core/src/log4j2.xml
+++ b/ccm-core/src/log4j2.xml
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<Configuration status="ALL">
-    <Appenders>
-        <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
-            <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
-        </Console>
+<configuration status="DEBUG">
+  <appenders>
+    <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
+      <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
+    </Console>
 
-        <File name="Logfile" fileName="logs/error.log">
-          <PatternLayout pattern="%d{yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
-        </File>             
-    </Appenders>
+    <File name="ErrorLog" fileName="logs/error.log">
+        <PatternLayout pattern="%d{yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
+    </File>             
+  </appenders>
 
-    <Loggers>     
-        <Root level="debug">
-            <AppenderRef ref="Console" level="warn"/>
-            <AppenderRef ref="Logfile" level="error"/>
-        </Root>    
-    </Loggers>
-</Configuration>
+  <loggers>     
+    <root level="debug">
+      <appender-ref ref="Console" level="warn"/>
+      <appender-ref ref="ErrorLog" level="error"/>
+    </root>
+  </loggers>
+</configuration>
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