更改nginx的日志文件位置

Question

I am trying out simple changes in nginx.conf file. I tried changing the location of error log from /var/log/nginx/error.log to /path/to/directory/error.log . But when I try restarting the nginx service, the service fails to startup and when I check its status, following log shows up.

nginx: [emerg] open() "/path/to/directory/error.log" failed (13: Permission denied)

I tried changing ownership of the directory but still it fails. Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thank you

Answer 1

Your path directory is not owned by NGINX user which is www-data so you need to run

chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/log/file