nginx-0.7.21

[mike]

Oh! Cool! I must have missed debug_connection. I will have to try that  
out. Also I think the wiki says error_log is only in global scope not  
server

On Nov 11, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:42:53PM -0800, mike wrote:
>
>> Cool!
>>
>> Question -
>>
>> Is there any way nginx can support conditional error logging and
>> conditional debugging?
>>
>> Turning on debugging for an entire server produces way too much
>> output. I'd love to be able to turn on debugging anywhere. From  
>> server
>> {} or location {} or even an if statement. This was one thing that
>> lighttpd was great with.
>>
>> Same with error logging - there are a couple conditions where I'd  
>> like
>> to turn error_log off - but error_log is a global setting.
>>
>> These two things would make my life a bit easier. Especially the
>> debugging one. I have the misfortune of supporting a complex site
>> setup with a ton of rewrites and a handful of location blocks and
>> such, and it helps to be able to debug which one(s) are being
>> triggered, but each HTTP request produces like 50-60 lines of  
>> output -
>> and one page might trigger 10-20 HTTP requests easily. That's a lot  
>> of
>> scroll and text to deal with ...
>
> You may set error_log per server or location, but not inside "if".
> As to a debugging error_log, I have found that is more convenient
> to set it per IP-address:
>
> error_log  /path/to/log  notice;
>
> events {
>    debug_connection  192.168.1.0/24;
>    debug_connection  192.168.10.1;
> }
>
>
> -- 
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>