Re: Using Httpd & Docker/Kubernetes logging

[Kurtis Rader <krader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 8:37 PM, David Aronchick <aronchick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm trying to use httpd in a Docker container. As a general rule, I'm trying to write the access & error logs to stdio and stderr instead of writing them to disk. Is there a best practice here? I've tried posting to stackoverflow, and the best idea given was creating a symlink in the container. Is there a way to do this officially?

http://stackoverflow.com/posts/32013582

The most efficient answer depends on your operating system. If you're on a UNIX like system which provides /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr (or perhaps /dev/fd/1 and /dev/fd/2) then use those file names. If that isn't an option use the piped output feature. For example, from my config:

CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs -c -f -l -L /private/var/log/apache2/test-access.log /private/var/log/apache2/test-access.log.%Y-%m-%d 86400     " krader_custom

ErrorLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs -c -f -l -L /private/var/log/apache2/test-error.log /private/var/log/apache2/test-error.log.%Y-%m-%d 86400" 

Obviously you'll want to substitute another program for /usr/sbin/rotatelogs in the example above that writes the data where you want it to go. 

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Kurtis Rader

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