nginx logging conundrum

Mike L jackoroses at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 06:04:39 UTC 2011


Thank you very much! I knew I overlooked something stupid. That was it
exactly. Works as expected now.
*embarrassed* "More sleep less, I can finish this up any time now.."


On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Stefan Caunter <stef at caunter.ca> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Mike L <jackoroses at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I need some enlightenment from some savants here.
> > My issue is I can't seem to get logging to work besides logging to
> > /var/log/messages. I originally installed the non-devel port on freebsd
> 8.2,
> > which actually logged to nginx-error.log for a little, until I started
> > tweaking the config file more to my setup. I originally intended to
> override
> > the log path compile options in the config file by pointing to
> > /var/log/www/nginx-access.log I never was able to get any logging to this
> > file though. So I went back to having the path in the config file match
> the
> > compile options - /var/log/nginx-access.log
> > Still no logging to this file and no files created. So I touched the
> files
> > thinking maybe.. That didn't work and than I did a chmod/chown on the
> files
> > hoping that was the issue. Still no logging and by this time no errors
> > logging either. I only get the output in messages.
> > I have done a lsof looking to see if any files are open yet I'm not too
> > "bright" and didn't see any output showing logging.
> > I've looked at my syslog.conf/newsyslog.conf and didn't see any help
> there.
> > I've attempted to have both global and server log configurations and
> neither
> > seem to do anything for me currently.
> >  I am currently running nginx -V
> > nginx: nginx version: nginx/1.1.0
> > nginx: TLS SNI support enabled
> > nginx: configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/local/etc/nginx
> --with-cc-opt='-I
> > /usr/local/include' --with-ld-opt='-L /usr/local/lib'
> > --conf-path=/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
> > --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid
> > --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx-error.log --user=www --group=www
> > --with-file-aio --with-ipv6
> > --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/client_body_temp
> > --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/fastcgi_temp
> > --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/proxy_temp
> > --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/scgi_temp
> > --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/uwsgi_temp
> > --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx-access.log
> >
> --add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/giom-nginx_accept_language_module-02262ce
> >
> --add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/ngx_http_auth_request_module-0.2
> >
> --add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/agentzh-headers-more-nginx-module-137855d
> > --with-http_dav_module
> > --add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/ngx-fancyindex-0.3.1
> >
> --add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module-0.3
> > --with-http_flv_module --with-http_geoip_module
> > --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_image_filter_module
> > --with-http_perl_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_ssl_module
> > --with-http_stub_status_module
> > --add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/nginx_upload_module-2.2.0
> >
> --add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/nginx_uploadprogress_module-0.8.2
> > --with-http_xslt_module
> > --add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/mod_zip-1.1.6
> >
> --add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/agentzh-memc-nginx-module-4f1952c
> > --with-pcre --with-syslog --with-syslog-facility=LOG_DAEMON
>
> Looks like you've told nginx to log to syslog, not a file, so you
> would need to set logging facility and location in the config for
> syslogd.
> If that's not what you want, recompile without that option and you'll
> get your log files back.
>
> > --add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/nginx_udplog_module-1.0.0
> >
> --add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/agentzh-xss-nginx-module-8618dd3
> >
> >
> > My .conf file which probably has other issues with it as well. As I
> > mentioned I have attempted several different paths for loggin in this
> config
> > file and tried to remove paths to see if that made any difference.
> > user  www www;
> > worker_processes  1;
> >
> > events{  worker_connections  1024;
> > }
> > http {
> >          include mime.types;
> >          default_type  application/octet-stream;
> >          log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]
> > "$request" '
> >                            '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
> >                            '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
> >         access_log /var/log/nginx-access.log main;
>
> see
> http://wiki.nginx.org/CoreModule#error_log
>
> you need something like:
> error_log /var/log/nginx-vhostname-error.log info;
>
> for your included servers, or in nginx.conf somewhere.
>
> >         sendfile        on;
> >         tcp_nopush     on;
> >         tcp_nodelay      on;
> >         #keepalive_timeout  0;
> >         keepalive_timeout  65;
> >         gzip  on;
> >         gzip_static on;
> >         gzip_buffers 16 8k;
> >         gzip_comp_level 6;
> >         gzip_http_version 1.0;
> >         gzip_types text/plain text/css image/x-icon image/bmp;
> >         gzip_vary         on;
> >         gzip_min_length  1100;
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > server {
> >         server_name www.xxx.com xxx.com;
> >         listen 80;
> >         listen 443 ssl;
> >         root /usr/local/www/crafty;
> >         index  index.php index.html index.htm;
> >         ssl_certificate    /usr/local/etc/ssl/server.crt;
> >         ssl_certificate_key  /usr/local/etc/ssl/server.key;
> >         ssl_session_timeout  5m;
> >         ssl_protocols  SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1;
> >         ssl_ciphers  HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
> >         ssl_prefer_server_ciphers   on;
> >         access_log  /var/log/nginx-access.host.log combined;
> >         error_log /var/log/nginx-error.log error;
> >
> >         location ~ \.htaccess {
> >                 deny all;
> >         }
> >
> >         location / {
> >                 if (!-e $request_filename) {
> >                         rewrite ^/([^?]*)(?:\?(.*))?
> /index.php?title=$1&$2
> > last;
> >                         rewrite
> > ^/index\.php/([a-z]+),([0-9]+)\.(\w+)/(\w+),(\w+)/(\w+)\.html
> > /index.php?$1=$2.$3&$4=$5&$6 last;
> >                         rewrite
> > ^/index\.php/([a-z]+),([0-9]+)\.(\w+)/(\w+),(\w+)\.html
> > /index.php?$1=$2.$3&$4=$5 last;
> >                         rewrite
> > ^/index\.php/([a-z]+),([0-9]+)\.(\w+)/(\w+)/(\w+)\.html
> > /index.php?$1=$2.$3&$4&$5 last;
> >                         rewrite
> > ^/index\.php/([a-z]+),([0-9]+)\.(\w+)/(\w+)\.html /index.php?$1=$2.$3&$4
> > last;
> >                         rewrite
> > ^/index\.php/([a-z]+),([0-9]+)/(\w+),(\w+)\.html /index.php?$1=$2&$3=$4
> > last;
> >                         rewrite
> ^/index\.php/([a-z]+),([0-9]+)\.(\w+)\.html
> > /index.php?$1=$2.$3 last;
> >                 }
> >                 if ($uri ~* "\.(ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)(\?[0-9]+)?$") {
> >                         expires max;
> >                         break;
> >                 }
> >                 error_page  404              /404.html;
> >         location = /404.html {
> >                 root    /usr/local/www/crafty;
> >         }
> >         # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
> >         #
> >         error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
> >         location = /50x.html {
> >             root   /usr/local/www/crafty;
> >                }
> >
> >         }
> >
> >         location ~* \.php$ {
> >                 if (!-e $request_filename) {
> >                         return 404;
> >                 }
> >                 root /usr/local/www/crafty;
> >                 include /usr/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
> >                 #if ($uri !~ "^/images/") {
> >                 fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
> >                 fastcgi_index index.php;
> >                 fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME
> > $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
> >         }
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> > my google powers have let me down and the only thing I have found in
> > searching on this is issues with past versions but nothing for current.
> > I have tried all methods of stopping/starting the daemon. From using the
> > rc.d script to pkill to calling the binary -s to rebooting the server.
> > I'm at a lost right now, I thought a reinstall of devel would help but
> I'm
> > at the same place I was 30 hours ago.
> >
>
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