Using the access_log if directive in 1.6.x

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

On Thursday 11 December 2014 00:33:24 sudharshanr wrote:
> 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.
> 

You can specify separate location for the 404 error page:

  error_page 404 /404.html;

  location /404.html {
      access_log /media/ephemeral0/log/nginx/error.log combined;
  }

Or use our official AMIs:
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  wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev