# Redirect 404 errors to a separate log file **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [August 27, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect-404-errors-to-a-separate-log-file/222405 "2012-08-27T14:02:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aris)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect-404-errors-to-a-separate-log-file/222405/1 "2012-08-27T14:02:03Z")
I have been trying for a whole day to figure out how to redirect 404 errors to a separate log file. I managed to do this in the server directive: error\_page 404 = @404; location @404 { error\_log /var/log/nginx/404.log; } This does write all 404 errors to 404.log, but the problem is that it also writes these errors in the default error.log, and I don’t want that. I want 404 errors to be writtent to only into the 404.log. Do you have an idea how to do this? Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Redirect 404 errors to a separate log file](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,230087,230087#msg-230087)** > > I have been trying for a whole day to figure out how to redirect 404 errors to a separate log file. I managed to do this in the server directive: error\_page 404 = @404; location @404 { error\_log /var/log/nginx/404.log; } This does write al ---
**Author:** ![kustodian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@kustodian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kustodian)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 10:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redirect-404-errors-to-a-separate-log-file/222405/2 "2012-09-03T10:49:12Z")
Hello! On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 04:31:17AM -0400, kustodian wrote: > 404 errors to be writtent to only into the 404.log. > > Do you have an idea how to do this? Errors to error\_log are logged once they happen, so you can’t configure separate error\_log to log specific errors (in contrast to access\_log). However you may control whether to log “not found” errors or not - there is configuration directive “log\_not\_found” for this, see [Module ngx\_http\_core\_module](http://nginx.org/r/log_not_found). Maxim D.