Overriding configuration variables, specifically access_log

Server NGINX
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We are using nginx/1.0.5 from the nginx apt repositories and have
noticed
that when setting the access_log directive in /etc/nginx/conf.d/common,
it
does nothing unless I comment out the access_log directive above it in
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf.

It appears that the variable is evaluated only the first time in any
given
block (in this case inside the http { } block) and cannot be overridden.
Is
that the case?

If so, I think the best solution is to move the access_log directive
inside
each of the individual location { } blocks where I need it so as not to
interfere with the stock nginx.conf file.

The only other alternative I can think of is to overwrite the nginx.conf
file entirely - I’m concerned about doing that because I don’t want that
file overwritten by the nginx aptitude installer in the future.

Does anybody have a good solution to this?

Cheers,
Adam

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On 08/18/11 17:36, Adam Nelson wrote:

The only other alternative I can think of is to overwrite the nginx.conf file
entirely - I’m concerned about doing that because I don’t want that file
overwritten by the nginx aptitude installer in the future.

Aptitude (on Debian) won’t overwrite nginx.conf if it has been changed.
Instead it will install the distributed version as nginx.conf.dpkg-dist.

It may prompt to ask if you want to overwrite but you just say no.

Dick

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On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Dick M. [email protected]
wrote:

It may prompt to ask if you want to overwrite but you just say no.

Dick

I’d still prefer to customize via conf.d/ if at all possible - that’s
what
the folder is there for after all. I’ll do that if necessary though.

Thanks,
Adam

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On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:36:30PM -0400, Adam Nelson wrote:

each of the individual location { } blocks where I need it so as not to
interfere with the stock nginx.conf file.

The only other alternative I can think of is to overwrite the nginx.conf
file entirely - I’m concerned about doing that because I don’t want that
file overwritten by the nginx aptitude installer in the future.

Does anybody have a good solution to this?

You can set several access_log files on a level, so this is the reason
why you can not override it.

–
Igor S.