debug logs not getting generated

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 06:04:04PM -0700, Kunal Pariani wrote:

> Hello,
> I followed this http://nginx.org/en/docs/debugging_log.html. Have nginx
> built with --with-debug and set the the error_log in the following 2 files
> (nginx.conf.main & inside http { } in nginx.conf.web). But still i don't
> see debug level logging getting generated in the files specified.
> 
> error_log  /log/nginx.log debug;
> 
> Tried with the rewrite_flag on too. Am i missing something ?

Yes.  Some things to check, in no particular order:

1) Is nginx installed is actually compiled with --with-debug 
(check the "nginx -V" output)?

2) Are you running nginx binary you are checking?  Make sure the 
binary you are running isn't some other binary, e.g., run from a 
different directory.

3) Make sure you've restarted nginx (or upgraded running binary).  

4) Make sure the config you are editing is right one (and again, 
you've reloaded a configuration after editing it; note that you 
have to check logs after a configuration reload to make sure it 
was successful).

> Also does anyone know why does nginx has these 2 types of template files
> ?(i.e .template & .default.template)
> for eg. nginx.conf.web.http.template & nginx.conf.web.http.default.template
> I see them to be exactly same.

There are no such files in nginx itself.  Likely it's something 
provided by your OS package.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
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