diff --git a/.classpath b/.classpath
index 43577c0..e5abd6f 100644
--- a/.classpath
+++ b/.classpath
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
-
diff --git a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
index b77a9a0..7497dff 100644
--- a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
+++ b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
-
diff --git a/src/test/java/log4j/log4j.properties b/src/test/java/log4j/log4j.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 7983f47..0000000
--- a/src/test/java/log4j/log4j.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-# Set root category priority to WARN and its only appender to A1.
-log4j.rootCategory=ERROR, A1
-
-log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-
-
-# A1 uses PatternLayout.
-log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p %c{2} [%t,%M:%L] %m%n
-
-
-# Display any warnings generated by our code
-#log4j.category.org.gcube=trace
-#log4j.category.org.globus=trace
-#log4j.category.isclient=INFO
-#log4j.category.org.gcube.common.homelibrary.jcr=TRACE
-
-
-log4j.category.org.gcube.portlets.user.workspace=TRACE
-
-
-
-log4j.logger.org.gcube=TRACE
-log4j.logger.org.gcube.application.framework.core.session=INFO
-log4j.logger.org.gcube.contentmanager=ERROR
-log4j.logger.org.gcube.common.scope=ERROR
-log4j.logger.org.gcube.contentmanagement=ERROR
-log4j.logger.org.gcube.resources.discovery.icclient=ERROR
-log4j.logger.org.gcube.common.clients=ERROR
-#log4j.logger.org.gcube.common.homelibrary.jcr=TRACE
-log4j.logger.org.gcube.application.framework.accesslogger=ERROR
-log4j.logger.org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine=ERROR
-
diff --git a/src/test/resources/.gitignore b/src/test/resources/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e53ef90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/log4j.properties