Logs for nginx under /config/log/nginx

[tcely]

For #70

I found hat-syslog which looks like an excellent way to handle logs from nginx and potentially anything else that uses a syslog server.

[meeb]

Doesn't this break HTTP request logging for the container in general? As in, removes it from the standard stdout and writes it to disk? Also unless I've missed it this doesn't have any log rotation by default?

[tcely]

Doesn't this break HTTP request logging for the container in general? As in, removes it from the standard stdout and writes it to disk?

Removing the access log from stdout was the intention here. I wouldn't call that broken.

Also unless I've missed it this doesn't have any log rotation by default?

The rotation is happening before starting nginx, so if you leave it running for long enough you could have lots of logs in a single file. However, access logs compress extremely well.

[tcely]

@meeb The merge conflict has been resolved.

[meeb]

Thanks. I'm on the fence with this one, your patch is fine, it's a philosophical difference. I prefer containers to write their logs, all of them, to stdout. I don't think the web server gets enough traffic for this "spam" to be significant. Is there a core reason to divert some of the logs to disk and potentially bypassing general container log analysis tools?

[tcely]

I personally almost never care about the web access logs. They are annoying and in the way when I want to follow what is happening.

A wishlist item might be to have a way to send logs from the web server through the common logger and provide a way to turn displaying them on/off while everything is running. That would solve both of our use cases.