NGINX looks for /logs/error.log as default?

Valentin V. Bartenev ne at vbart.ru
Mon Oct 22 13:37:23 UTC 2012


On Monday 22 October 2012 16:01:17 Kasper Grubbe wrote:
> Hello, I have a problem with NGINX version 1.2.4 it will constantly look
> for /logs/error.log, even though I have defined another error.log in my
> configuration.
[...]
> But NGINX don't want to start because ./logs/error.log doesn't exist. This
> is my error:
> 
> [ben2 (master)]=> nginx -p . -c config/nginx/development.conf
> nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() "./logs/error.log"
> failed (2: No such file or directory)
> 
> Am I doing it wrong?

Nginx must have access to error log before it will parse configuration.
See also the "--error-log-path=" configure parameter. 
http://www.nginx.org/en/docs/install.html 

 wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev

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