access log off nginx not working ?

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 07:45:29PM -0400, gyre007 wrote:

> I have the following drop.conf files located in /etc/nginx/drop.conf
> 
> location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

[...]

> Strange thing is when I include it in whichever server directive - ie in
> whichever virtual host I have configured - I'm still getting favicon
> logs in my access log. Is this a BUG ?? 
> It looks like the include is simply not working ?
> 
> Example of the virtual host I'm including this in:
> 
> server {

[...]

>         error_page 404 /errors/404.html;
>         location /errors/ {
>                 alias /var/www/errors/;
>                 internal;
>         }

[...]

> ***** - - [06/Jul/2012:22:16:05 +0000]  "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404
> 134 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_4)
> AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.47
> Safari/536.11"

[...]

> Am I missing out something really obvious ?

Requests are logged in context of a location where request 
execution ends up.  As you have error_page 404 defined, and no 
favicon.ico file - error 404 is generated and redirected to 
/errors/404.html.  As a result request is logged in context of 
"location /errors/" where you have access log enabled.

Maxim Dounin