Nginx and conditional logformat

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Thu Jul 25 13:19:31 UTC 2019


Hello!

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 05:08:30AM -0400, cello86 at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi All,
> we tried to add some debug information into our access_log for a service
> with a client certificate authentication. Actually we print some information
> related to the clients but we would print into the logs the client
> certificate sent by the client during the handshake in case of error. We
> tried to put the generic logformat into the server block and another
> logformat into the if condition, but the first wins always versus the
> second.
> 
> Is it possible to config the logformat in a conditional statement?

Yes, check the "if=" parameter of the access_log directive.  See 
here for details:

http://nginx.org/r/access_log

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Maxim Dounin
http://mdounin.ru/


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