Why is NGINX wanting to use ./logs/error.log as default?
nginx, osx-lion
Solution
http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#error_log indicates that:
- the default value is `error_log logs/error.log error;`
- that for debug logging to work, nginx needs to be built with --with-debug.`
what's happening is that you're falling through to the default value, I'm not spotting any syntax errors so my guess is that your nginx is not compiled with --with-debug.
you can check that with the `nginx -V` (note: that's capital V)
Problem
I am currently wanting to use NGINX in my Rails setup. I have placed the configuration files in the directory `RAILS_ROOT/config/nginx`. Here is my config-file placed named `development.conf` and the `mime.types`-file. I am wanting to place my logs in the `RAILS_ROOT/log`-directory. This is my `development.conf`: ``` worker_processes 1; events { worker_connections 1024; } http { include mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; # main access log access_log log/nginx.access.log; # main error log error_log log/nginx.error.log debug; sendfile on; keepalive_timeout 65; server { listen 9001; #omg! server_name local.woman.dk; rewrite ^/(.*)/$ /$1 last; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_redirect off; proxy_max_temp_file_size 0; location / { ssi on; proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000; } } } ``` I am starting NGINX from my RAILS_ROOT with this command: ``` nginx -p . -c config/nginx/development.conf ``` And I get the following error: ``` nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() "./logs/error.log" failed (2: No such file or directory) ``` My version is this: ``` [(master)]=> nginx -v nginx version: nginx/1.2.4 ``` Am I doing anything wrong?