ubuntu server Define nginx logs in vhost

[brent]

if you are running multiple vhost in nginx, you may want to change the location of your site logs.

in this exercise we have a structure of: /var/www/domain.com/html & /var/www/domain.com/log

1.  Create a folder in /var/www/domain.com/log

2.  open /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/domain.com

3.  Add the access_log and error_log to your vhost file and save the configuration file.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.domain.com;
    root /var/www/domain.com/html/;
    access_log /var/www/domain.com/log/domain.com.access.log;
    error_log /var/www/domain.com/log/domain.com.error.log;
}

 

4. Reload Nginx server

systemctl restart nginx.service

5. Check /var/www/domain.com/log to ensure two log files have been created.