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This might be a simple question. How do you rotate Apache logs daily?

Mary
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    Why the down vote? isn't this a valid questions? – Mary Sep 01 '11 at 03:08
  • Mary - I can't speak for the downvoter, but my guess is that the downvote was because this is something that is easily discoverable by a simple Google search, and you showed no evidence that you had tried to research it yourself. – EEAA Sep 01 '11 at 03:46
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    In her defence, this is what I found by a simple Google search. – Kenzo Mar 02 '14 at 01:43

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Put the below lines into /etc/logrotate.d/httpd:

/var/log/httpd/*log {
    missingok
    notifempty
    sharedscripts
    daily
    rotate 7
    postrotate
        /sbin/service httpd reload > /var/log/httpd/rotate 2>&1 || true
    endscript
    compress
}
quanta
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  • See http://serverfault.com/questions/208006/logrotating-files-in-a-directories-and-its-subdirectories if you want to do this for more than one log directory. – SPRBRN May 06 '14 at 14:48
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On a Linux system you would usually setup logrotate.

You could also use something like cronolog.

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It's perhaps a bit more elegant to use the Apache 'rotatelogs' program, imo.

Here's an example from one of my servers:

# Seo logs, rotated daily, on GMT clock
LogFormat "%h %t %D \"%r\" %>s \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %{Host}i" seo
CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs /etc/httpd/logs/seo_log.%Y%m%d 86400" seo

You can also set a GMT offset for localtime, or specify rotation based on filesize.

'man rotatelogs'.

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