更改Nginx日志文件位置

Question

I can't get any changes in the /etc/nginx/nginx.conf http block to be used. I'm starting with the simplest thing - I want to modify the name of access.log to something else (ie a.log). It is a vanilla nginx install (no custom config files yet). Here's what I know:

• changing a value in the head of nginx.conf does affect the configuration (changing worker_processes 4 to worker_processes 2 does change the # of workers)
• Making a syntax error in nginx.conf's http block does cause nginx to throw an error on restart
• Changing access_log to access_log /var/log/nginx/a.log does not modify the location of the log, and nginx in fact continues logging to /var/log/nginx/access.log

Here is a snippet of my nginx.conf file:

user www-data;
worker_processes 4;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
        worker_connections 768;
}

http {
        include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
        default_type application/octet-stream;

        access_log /var/log/nginx/a.log;
        #....
}

Is it something as simple as I'm modifying an http block that gets overwritten by some other config file? Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Isn't your access_log also defined in a server block ? Have a look at the default config in nginx/sites-enabled/. In this case the value in http block is overwritten by the one in the lower block.