dynamic logs

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:51:34PM +0000, Vladan Popovic wrote:

> Igor Sysoev <is at ...> writes:
> 
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:15:30PM +0000, Vladan Popovic wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm using version 0.716 and trying to make dynamic log files work.
> > > The log file is created but subsequently nothing is written inside the file.
> > > The configuration is as follows:
> > > # Catch all web site
> > > #
> > > server {
> > >         server_name _ ;
> > > 
> > >         location  /widgets/ { alias  /home/http/lib/widgets/; }
> > >         rewrite ^/crm/(.*)$ https://$host/crm/$1 permanent;
> > > 
> > >         if ($host ~* "^([^.]+(\.[^.]+)*)\.((.*)\.(com|net|org)(\..*)?)$"){
> > >                 set $subd $1;
> > >                 set $dom  $3;
> > >                 set $myroot /sites/$dom/$subd/htdocs ;
> > >         }
> > > 
> > >         location / {
> > >            index  index.php index.html index.htm;
> > >         }
> > > 
> > >         root            /home/http$myroot ;
> > >         include         php-fastcgi;
> > > 
> > >         access_log  /var/log/nginx/$dom debug ;
> > > 
> > > }
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I get an error as follows:
> > > 2008/09/12 02:06:19 [alert] 9832#0: *6 write() to "/var/log/nginx/be-o.com"
> > > failed (22: Invalid argument) while logging request, 
> > 
> > Could you run nginx using truss/ktrace/strace and try the request ?
> Hello Igor,
> I am sorry but I don't know these tools - i never used them and don't really
> know what I should do with them.
> I am using Ubuntu 8.04 and strace is present so I ran it but it generated a log
> of text on the screen that I didn't understand.
> The user that is the owner of the log file is www-data and I did 'su www-data'
> and then I could write in the log file manually so the problem doesn't seem
> related to user rights.

You need to find something like 'open "/var/log/nginx/be-o.com"' in
strace output and send the line and about 10 lines after it to me.


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