Re: Where to place log files for boa?

["Scott Murray" <scott.murray@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2023, Yan Xin Kuan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am patching and doing configurations on boa web server.
>
> A situation here is, boa default configured its log files which are access_log and error_log to be generated under this path:
>
> /var/log/boa/
>
> PS: boa would not create such a folder, it just locates this folder and generate log file inside of it.
>
> I see in the build system, folders under /var can not be generated during build time.
>
> So I have got 2 options:
>
> 1, I change the default configuration file of boa re-direct the log path to /etc/boa/log/.
>
> 2, I change the default configuration file of boa and re-direct the log path to /var/<some existing directory>.
>
> I need some advice.

The easiest solution might be to just configure boa to write the files in
/var/log.  If you do want them to go into a subdirectory like
/var/log/boa, you can create it with a mkdir in a ExecStartPre directive
in the systemd unit you should likely write to start boa.

Scott



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