Nginx logging conundrum

I need some enlightenment from some savants here.
My issue is I can’t seem to get logging to work besides logging to
/var/log/messages. I originally installed the non-devel port on freebsd
8.2,
which actually logged to nginx-error.log for a little, until I started
tweaking the config file more to my setup. I originally intended to
override
the log path compile options in the config file by pointing to
/var/log/www/nginx-access.log I never was able to get any logging to
this
file though. So I went back to having the path in the config file match
the
compile options - /var/log/nginx-access.log
Still no logging to this file and no files created. So I touched the
files
thinking maybe… That didn’t work and than I did a chmod/chown on the
files
hoping that was the issue. Still no logging and by this time no errors
logging either. I only get the output in messages.
I have done a lsof looking to see if any files are open yet I’m not too
“bright” and didn’t see any output showing logging.
I’ve looked at my syslog.conf/newsyslog.conf and didn’t see any help
there.
I’ve attempted to have both global and server log configurations and
neither
seem to do anything for me currently.
I am currently running nginx -V
nginx: nginx version: nginx/1.1.0
nginx: TLS SNI support enabled
nginx: configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/local/etc/nginx
–with-cc-opt=‘-I
/usr/local/include’ --with-ld-opt=‘-L /usr/local/lib’
–conf-path=/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
–sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid
–error-log-path=/var/log/nginx-error.log --user=www --group=www
–with-file-aio --with-ipv6
–http-client-body-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/client_body_temp
–http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/fastcgi_temp
–http-proxy-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/proxy_temp
–http-scgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/scgi_temp
–http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/uwsgi_temp
–http-log-path=/var/log/nginx-access.log
–add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/giom-nginx_accept_language_module-02262ce
–add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/ngx_http_auth_request_module-0.2
–add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/agentzh-headers-more-nginx-module-137855d
–with-http_dav_module
–add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/ngx-fancyindex-0.3.1
–add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module-0.3
–with-http_flv_module --with-http_geoip_module
–with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_image_filter_module
–with-http_perl_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_ssl_module
–with-http_stub_status_module
–add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/nginx_upload_module-2.2.0
–add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/nginx_uploadprogress_module-0.8.2
–with-http_xslt_module
–add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/mod_zip-1.1.6
–add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/agentzh-memc-nginx-module-4f1952c
–with-pcre --with-syslog --with-syslog-facility=LOG_DAEMON
–add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/nginx_udplog_module-1.0.0
–add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/agentzh-xss-nginx-module-8618dd3

My .conf file which probably has other issues with it as well. As I
mentioned I have attempted several different paths for loggin in this
config
file and tried to remove paths to see if that made any difference.
user www www;
worker_processes 1;

events{ worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]
“$request” ’
'$status $body_bytes_sent “$http_referer” ’
‘“$http_user_agent” “$http_x_forwarded_for”’;
access_log /var/log/nginx-access.log main;
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
#keepalive_timeout 0;
keepalive_timeout 65;
gzip on;
gzip_static on;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_http_version 1.0;
gzip_types text/plain text/css image/x-icon image/bmp;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_min_length 1100;

server {
server_name www.xxx.com xxx.com;
listen 80;
listen 443 ssl;
root /usr/local/www/crafty;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
ssl_certificate /usr/local/etc/ssl/server.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /usr/local/etc/ssl/server.key;
ssl_session_timeout 5m;
ssl_protocols SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1;
ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
access_log /var/log/nginx-access.host.log combined;
error_log /var/log/nginx-error.log error;

    location ~ \.htaccess {
            deny all;
    }

    location / {
            if (!-e $request_filename) {
                    rewrite ^/([^?]*)(?:\?(.*))? 

/index.php?title=$1&$2
last;
rewrite
^/index.php/([a-z]+),([0-9]+).(\w+)/(\w+),(\w+)/(\w+).html
/index.php?$1=$2.$3&$4=$5&$6 last;
rewrite
^/index.php/([a-z]+),([0-9]+).(\w+)/(\w+),(\w+).html
/index.php?$1=$2.$3&$4=$5 last;
rewrite
^/index.php/([a-z]+),([0-9]+).(\w+)/(\w+)/(\w+).html
/index.php?$1=$2.$3&$4&$5 last;
rewrite
^/index.php/([a-z]+),([0-9]+).(\w+)/(\w+).html /index.php?$1=$2.$3&$4
last;
rewrite
^/index.php/([a-z]+),([0-9]+)/(\w+),(\w+).html /index.php?$1=$2&$3=$4
last;
rewrite
^/index.php/([a-z]+),([0-9]+).(\w+).html
/index.php?$1=$2.$3 last;
}
if ($uri ~* “.(ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)(?[0-9]+)?$”)
{
expires max;
break;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
location = /404.html {
root /usr/local/www/crafty;
}
# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/local/www/crafty;
}

    }

    location ~* \.php$ {
            if (!-e $request_filename) {
                    return 404;
            }
            root /usr/local/www/crafty;
            include /usr/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
            #if ($uri !~ "^/images/") {
            fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME

$document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}

}

my google powers have let me down and the only thing I have found in
searching on this is issues with past versions but nothing for current.
I have tried all methods of stopping/starting the daemon. From using the
rc.d script to pkill to calling the binary -s to rebooting the server.
I’m at a lost right now, I thought a reinstall of devel would help but
I’m
at the same place I was 30 hours ago.

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Mike L [email protected] wrote:

thinking maybe… That didn’t work and than I did a chmod/chown on the files
nginx: configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/local/etc/nginx --with-cc-opt='-I
–http-log-path=/var/log/nginx-access.log
–add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/nginx_upload_module-2.2.0
–add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/nginx_uploadprogress_module-0.8.2
–with-http_xslt_module
–add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/mod_zip-1.1.6
–add-module=/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/agentzh-memc-nginx-module-4f1952c
–with-pcre --with-syslog --with-syslog-facility=LOG_DAEMON

Looks like you’ve told nginx to log to syslog, not a file, so you
would need to set logging facility and location in the config for
syslogd.
If that’s not what you want, recompile without that option and you’ll
get your log files back.

events{ worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]
“$request” ’
'$status $body_bytes_sent “$http_referer” ’
‘“$http_user_agent” “$http_x_forwarded_for”’;
access_log /var/log/nginx-access.log main;

see
http://wiki.nginx.org/CoreModule#error_log

you need something like:
error_log /var/log/nginx-vhostname-error.log info;

for your included servers, or in nginx.conf somewhere.

Thank you very much! I knew I overlooked something stupid. That was it
exactly. Works as expected now.
embarrassed “More sleep less, I can finish this up any time now…”