[CentOS] How to rotate PHP error log - since it belongs to apache

[Andre Goree]

On 06/05/2012 10:15 AM, Alexander Farber wrote:
> Hello Luigi and others,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Luigi Rosa <lists at luigirosa.com> wrote:
>> Alexander Farber said the following on 05/06/12 15:57:
>>
>>> So my question is for how to rotate it (esp. since it should be owned by
>>> "apache" user) - what do you guys use?
>>
>> the standard logrotate config /etc/logrotate.d/httpd or a modified copy of it
>>
>> since the rotation moves the old log and then reloads Apache, you don't have
>> to worry about the ownership issue
> 
> yes, I'm aware of that file and have modified
> the docs path in it because I have several vhosts too...
> 
> Here is my current /etc/logrotate.d/httpd file:
> 
> /var/log/httpd/my_vhost_1/*log {
>     missingok
>     notifempty
>     sharedscripts
>     delaycompress
>     postrotate
>         /sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
>     endscript
> }
> 
> But my problem is I don't know how to do it best -
> i.e. where to put the PHP log file
> /var/log/php/php_errors.log
> in the directives above and also how to rotate
> the logs for all vhosts I have (I currently rotate just
> for one - the "my_vhost_1" as you can see above)
> 
> Regards
> Alex
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Create a different file under /etc/logrotate.d (perhaps name it
"phplog", doesn't really mater though) and add the appropriate
configuration options.  I used this website to help me with the
necessary options (though the man page is more than sufficient as well):
 http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/07/logrotate-examples/

Here is a custom logrotate conf I created for my catalina logs:


[root at 390405-web1 images]# cat /etc/logrotate.d/tomcat
/opt/apache-tomcat-5.5.34/logs/catalina.out {
 daily
 copytruncate
 delaycompress
 missingok
 postrotate
        /root/bin/catlog_mv.sh
 endscript
}


If you were wanting to rotate according to the size of the file (perhaps
512MB, whatever works for you though) owned by apache, you might create
a file under /etc/logrotate.d/ containing something like the following:

/var/log/php/php_errors.log {
 size 512MB
 create 644 apache apache
 missingok
 compress
}


There's all kinds of other options you can add as well.  Read the
article I linked earlier and/or the man page, it's really pretty
trivial.  Good luck :)

-- 
Andre Goree
andre at drenet.info