[svn.haxx.se] · SVN Dev · SVN Users · SVN Org · TSVN Dev · TSVN Users · Subclipse Dev · Subclipse Users · this month's index

Default log file locations

From: Peter Bittner <peter.bittner_at_gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:10:50 +0200

Hi there!

In my day job I'm helping to get applications from traditional
environments running in cloud environments. Cloud native applications
are just "normal" applications, but there are a few properties that
they should satisfy (apart from resiliency and scalability).

For logging this boils down to what is prescribed by the 12-factor
app: The log output should be a continuous stream, i.e. simply log to
the terminal.

Now, as of today, at least on Debian based container images, the
behavior of Apache is to write to /var/log/apache2/access.log and
/var/log/apache2/error.log by default. We try to compensate this by
making those files symbolic links to /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr.
We're doing this also, because there seem to be cases when a log entry
is written _before_ it is configured via the Apache configuration
file.

From my perspective it would be advantageous to have Apache write to
the terminal by default (i.e. no hardcoded log file locations) and
allow to override this behavior via the Apache configuration file.

Is there any reason why the default behavior is not that way yet?

Peter
Received on 2019-06-27 19:11:28 CEST

This is an archived mail posted to the Subversion Dev mailing list.

This site is subject to the Apache Privacy Policy and the Apache Public Forum Archive Policy.