# Access\_log both compressed and uncompressed

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/access-log-both-compressed-and-uncompressed/237690>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [November 24, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/access-log-both-compressed-and-uncompressed/237690 "2013-11-24T17:35:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![musicdenotation](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@musicdenotation](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/musicdenotation)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/access-log-both-compressed-and-uncompressed/237690/1 "2013-11-24T17:35:31Z")

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In my “vhost” declaration I have:  
access\_log /WEBSITE\_DIR/logs/access.log.gz combined gzip;  
Problem is I get 2 files, an access.log.gz and an access.log Why? I want  
just the .log.gz one…

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**Author:** ![lorenzo\_r](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/aca169/32.png) [@lorenzo\_r](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lorenzo_r)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/access-log-both-compressed-and-uncompressed/237690/2 "2013-11-25T15:05:14Z")

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Hello!

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 08:34:32AM -0800, Lorenzo R. wrote:

> In my “vhost” declaration I have:  
> access\_log /WEBSITE\_DIR/logs/access.log.gz combined gzip;  
> Problem is I get 2 files, an access.log.gz and an access.log Why? I want just  
> the .log.gz one…

Likely you have access.log configured elsewhere.

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Maxim D.  
[http://nginx.org/en/donation.html](http://nginx.org/en/donation.html)