debug logs not getting generated

[Kunal Pariani]

Never mind. Got it working. Had a script which was overwriting the loglevel
value in the conf file after restarting nginx.
Thanks for the help.


On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Kunal Pariani <kunalvjti at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).
>
> I noticed that the config file (conf/nginx/nginx.conf.main) i am changing
> loses the changes after restarting nginx. Not sure why this should happen
> as config files need to be persistent across reloads.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> http://nginx.org/
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