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Re: Default log file locations

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:55:26 -0400

> On Jun 27, 2019, at 1:10 PM, Peter Bittner <peter.bittner_at_gmx.net> wrote:
>
> 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?

I assume you meant to send this to the dev@ list for the httpd project?

http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html

Mark
Received on 2019-06-27 21:55:31 CEST

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