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moo
moo

Reputation: 7789

Apache: Multiple log files?

What are the access.log.* files?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1436

Answers (2)

Micropolis
Micropolis

Reputation: 130

Apache / apache2 itself doesn't do its own log rotation. On *nix systems, logs (including logs by Apache) are usually rotated via logrotate, a command which looks like a service but is actually only a script triggered by cron in defined intervals. (@nobody already pointed that out in comments). One default logrotate configuration appends ".1" to an older, rotated log, so a file like access.log.1 would end up in your logs directory. This is what you are probably seeing.

Is it possible to have apache log to multiple log files?

The question's title can be ambiguous. For anyone coming here to learn if it is possible to make Apache write to multiple log files simultaneously, the answer is: Yes.

The TransferLog or CustomLog directives are used to define logfiles. These directives can be repeated to make Apache write to more than one log file. This also works for VHOSTS / Virtual Host entris. Only ancient Apache releases were limited to only one logfile per server configuration.

Upvotes: 0

tvanfosson
tvanfosson

Reputation: 532465

Apache, I believe, does log rotation. So these would be the older log files with the access.log file being the current one.

Upvotes: 3

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