Nginx access log file path

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This is my default.conf. I specify the access.log and error.log path. And I use docker to build it.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name localhost;
    root /var/www/html;
    index index.html index.php;

    charset utf-8;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }


    if ($time_iso8601 ~ "^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})") {
        set $year $1;
        set $month $2;
        set $day $3;
    }

    access_log /var/log/nginx/test/access-$year-$month-$day.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/test2/error.log;

    sendfile off;
    client_max_body_size 100m;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass php:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
        fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

When I builded it and up. I got the error message.

nginx_1  | nginx: [emerg] open() "/var/log/nginx/test2/error.log" failed (2: No such file or directory)

How can I automatically generate the file path? This is my docker-compose, Github

Tarun Lalwani · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-03 04:34:57Z

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The error you are getting is because the test2 directory doesn't exists. Nginx will not create this automatically for you. So you need to create it using below commands in your Dockerfile

RUN mkdir -p /var/log/nginx/test2 /var/log/nginx/test

answered Aug 3, 2017 at 4:34

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2 Comments

lighter Over a year ago

I know I need to create the folder first. Can I auto generate the folder?

Tarun Lalwani Over a year ago

No, because nginx won't start without the folder being there. So either you put a SH file which does that and launch nginx.

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