logrotate nginx log by date
Logrotate by default rotate logs with numbers like following
You can configure how many logs to keep and how to rotate lots by editing logrotate configuration file for nginx
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root@ok:~# cat /etc/logrotate.d/nginx /var/log/nginx/*.log { daily missingok rotate 14 compress delaycompress notifempty create 0640 www-data adm sharedscripts prerotate if [ -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate ]; then \ run-parts /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate; \ fi \ endscript postrotate invoke-rc.d nginx rotate >/dev/null 2>&1 endscript } root@ok:~# |
rotate 14 – this tells logrotate to keep logs for 14 days.
If you need to rotate logs by date, add
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dateext dateformat -%Y-%m-%d |
Example
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/var/log/nginx/*.log { daily missingok rotate 14 compress delaycompress notifempty create 0640 www-data adm dateext dateformat -%Y-%m-%d sharedscripts prerotate if [ -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate ]; then \ run-parts /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate; \ fi \ endscript postrotate invoke-rc.d nginx rotate >/dev/null 2>&1 endscript } |
See Logrotate