Apache daily logrotate

Question

I want to create daily logs, but there's a small problem. Logs aren't being created for each day, rather they contain the previous log files. Here's my current setup, how can I change it so it only create a log file for each day?

I edit the following file : /etc/logrotate.d/httpd

I'm using a control panel called Zadmin so I included its log path as a second dir.

I'm using CentOS 6.5 64 bit.

/var/log/httpd/*log /var/sentora/logs/domains/zadmin/*.log {
    missingok
    rotate 4000000
    daily
    notifempty
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
    /sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
    endscript
}

Solution 1

Following on to Brian's answer, I'm a big fan of cronolog, which does pretty much exactly what you're going for:

CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/cronolog /var/log/httpd/%Y/%m/%Y-%m-%d-access.log" combined
ErrorLog "|/usr/sbin/cronolog /var/log/httpd/%Y/%m/%Y-%m-%d-error.log"

yum install cronolog will get you cronolog on Cent6.

Solution 2

Try running logrotate manually to look for errors: logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd. The manual says "-d Turns on debug mode and implies -v. In debug mode, no changes will be made to the logs or to the logrotate state file."

This is what we're using successfully:

/var/log/httpd/*log {
  daily
  dateext
  dateformate -%d-%m-%Y
  missingok
  nocompress
  rotate 30
  postrotate
    /sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
  endscript
}

Solution 3

Apache lets you pipe log files to another program which can then handle rotation without having to reload/restart Apache. Apache even provides a program to do this.

ErrorLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l -f /var/log/apache2/errlogfile.%Y.%m.%d.log 86400" common
CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l -f /var/log/apache2/logfile.%Y.%m.%d.log 86400" common

Comments

[c4urself]

What do you mean by > they contain the previous log files

[salep]

For instance, when I look at the access.log file, it includes all the logs that has been created so far. I don't want it, I want it to create logs daily and name it like the following : access.log-21-08-2015

[Brian]

There is also a rotate logs program that comes with Apache, rotatelogs.

[ojs]

Is this happening only to Apache logs? If its happening to all logs the 'create' option might be missing from /etc/logrotate.conf (please add the content of that file to your post). Also the /var/lib/logrotate.status (I think Centos has that one, at least Arch has it) might be corrupted, you could try and move it out of harms way and try running logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/httpd manually as root. Also adding the -d switch for debugging purposes wont hurt.

[Navern]

Do you have cron task which runs logrotate? what happens when you run logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf manually?

[MastaJeet]

WAG: There is an error in the apache configuration so the reload isn't working. Try apachectl configtest

[Brian]

It does look nicer than the Apache program, would just add it is in the EPEL repository which is not enabled be default on CentOS (yum install epel-release to install/enable it).

[salep]

Where I should put the text that starts with "CustomLog" and "ErrorLog", /etc/logrotate.d/httpd?

[salep]

Additionally, should I remove everything in the /etc/logrotate.d/httpd and just put these?

[Brian]

They go in the Apache web server's configuration file.

[Hardoman]

ErrorLog has an issue in the format. ErrorLog takes one argument, The filename of the error log - no "common" is expected in the end of the line. Apache fails to start with such config.

[Hardoman]

Moreover, you need to specify the real path to rotatelogs. Normally it's not like above but can be /usr/local/apache/bin/rotatelogs

[Brian]

@Hardoman The examples are from the documentation: rotatelogs - Piped logging program to rotate Apache logs

[Hardoman]

And you copied it incorrectly. ErrorLog doesn't have "common" in the examples!