Per portal logs via log4j

Here is my current setup:
mydomain
myApp
aPortal
bPortal
cPortal
logs
log1
log2
Before I had the log4j.xml in the mydomain directory where it was specified in a config and it worked fine. Now that I have 3 portals, all running different versions of the same codebase, the logs are getting thrown together. What I would like is for each portal to have its own logs.
It would look something like this
mydomain
myApp
aPortal
log1
log2
bPortal
log1
log2
cPortal
log1
log2
I've tried putting log4j.xml in aPortal/WEB-INF/classes and log4j.jar in aPortal/WEB-INF/lib but it doesn't seem to pick it up.
Filtering based on Logger doesn't work because like I said, they are different versions of the same code. As far as I understand they run in separate JVM's so this should be possible.
Does anyone know how I could do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ben

It's all on the same machine. I assumed they run in different VM's because we don't see any collisions among the same classes across the different portals. That being said, I don't know. I wasn't the one to set it up, I'm guessing that it is pretty close to stock 8.1.
Are you suggesting that on creating the logger I do something like getLogger(aPortal + this.getClass())?
This may work, and given that I can't find anything else I'll give it a shot. What I would really like is something that I can transfer around. Have each portal contain its on log files, and the configs to create those. Then I could deploy them to a production system without any changes.

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