diff --git a/container_files/tomee/bin/setenv.sh b/container_files/tomee/bin/setenv.sh
index 603fc570..369d5441 100755
--- a/container_files/tomee/bin/setenv.sh
+++ b/container_files/tomee/bin/setenv.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 CLASSPATH=/opt/tomee/bin/*
 #JAVA_OPTS="-Dlog4j.configurationFile=/opt/tomee/conf/log4j2.xml -DENV=$ENV -DUSERTOKEN=$USERTOKEN"
-CATALINA_OPTS="-Xmx$GROUPER_MAX_MEMORY -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+UseStringDeduplication -Dlog4j.configurationFile=/opt/tomee/conf/log4j2.xml -DENV=$ENV -DUSERTOKEN=$USERTOKEN -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 $GROUPER_EXTRA_CATALINA_OPTS"
+CATALINA_OPTS="-Xmx$GROUPER_MAX_MEMORY -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+UseStringDeduplication -Dlog4j.configurationFile=/opt/tomee/conf/log4j2.xml -DENV=$ENV -DUSERTOKEN=$USERTOKEN -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dlog4j1.compatibility=true $GROUPER_EXTRA_CATALINA_OPTS"
 LOGGING_MANAGER=-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.logging.log4j.jul.LogManager