How can I make logrotate work for custom apache log location?

Question

I changed /etc/apache2/envars like this.

#export APACHE_LOG_DIR=/var/log/apache2$SUFFIX
export APACHE_LOG_DIR=/lv1/var/log/apache2$SUFFIX

And it seems to work. Logs appended in the new directory.

And I changed /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 like this.

/lv1/var/log/apache2/*.log {
        daily

And it seems not to work. Logs keep being appended to the same access.log.

How can I make logroate to work for this?

Answer 1

Looking at the apache logging docs you need to restart the server when the logs are rotated for it to open the new file.

So you can put a postrotate section in with

postrotate
        /path/to/apachectl graceful