diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e92086cc70b16ea878f851fb8694038a2593bddb..27336f90a3c6024b77abbd932b065fa51781e905 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -404,9 +404,14 @@
 				<configuration>
 					<scanIntervalSeconds>0</scanIntervalSeconds>
 					<webApp>
-						<overrideDescriptor>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web-dev.xml</overrideDescriptor>
 						<webInfIncludeJarPattern>^$</webInfIncludeJarPattern>
 					</webApp>
+					<systemProperties>
+						<systemProperty>
+							<name>arsnova.log.level</name>
+							<value>DEBUG</value>
+						</systemProperty>
+					</systemProperties>
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 			<plugin>
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web-dev.xml b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web-dev.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index bd683b80d0a48299571c210cf0f45fff4d91babc..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web-dev.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-		 xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
-		 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
-		 id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0">
-	<context-param>
-		<param-name>log4jConfigLocation</param-name>
-		<param-value>/WEB-INF/classes/log4j-dev.properties</param-value>
-	</context-param>
-</web-app>