can a map + regex be used to generate variables for YYYY-MM-DD-HH?

[Francis Daly]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 07:17:20PM -0400, newnovice wrote:

Hi there,

> Where I am going with this is - I want to write error & access - logs out
> with the 'YYYY-MM-DD-HH'  suffix. So i need these variables.  

I'm not aware that error_log takes variables.

You may be happier moving the log files to time-named versions and then
signalling nginx to re-open the log files, every hour.

http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html

> The 'if' statement is not allowed outside the server{} - I am at a loss due
> to this.

if() doesn't work for you inside location{}, and it is not allowed
outside server{}. What happens if you put it inside server{} but outside
location{}?

> Please con you show me some examples of how to set these variables
> with a map regex? 

Untested, but given that you already have

  if ($time_iso8601 ~ "^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})") {
    set $year $1;
    set $month $2;
    set $day $3;
  }

then I would expect that something like

  map $time_iso8601 $year {
    "~^(?P<one>\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})" $one;
  }

would do the right thing.

> I can have 4 seoerate maps to get it done - doesn't matter.

If you want to use map for this, then you would need multiple ones. But
I suspect that variable-in-log-file-name is not what you want.

Good luck with it,

	f
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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org