Using the access_log if directive in 1.6.x

[sudharshanr]

Hi,

I'm using nginx 1.6.2 on Amazon ec2 linux server. The problem I'm having is
that all my 404 errors are going to my access.log. I want them to be
redirected to error.log instead.

I saw on other forums that with nginx 1.7+, I can use the if directive of
access_log to do something like:

    map $status $errorable {
       ~([^23][0-9][0-9]) 1;
       default 0;
   }
   
  access_log /media/ephemeral0/log/nginx/error.log combined if=$errorable;

However, I'm not able to do the same with 1.6.2. I don't think I can update
to 1.7+ as it is not available for ec2 linux servers yet. Is there an
alternative for doing the same with 1.6.2?

Thanks.

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,255415,255415#msg-255415