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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/services/web.scm | 3 |
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 0d334e302f..957ce2bab3 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -13316,6 +13316,15 @@ used to specify the list of @dfn{server blocks} required on the host and blocks} to configure. For this to work, use the default value for @var{config-file}. +At startup, @command{nginx} has not yet read its configuration file, so it +uses a default file to log error messages. If it fails to load its +configuration file, that is where error messages are logged. After the +configuration file is loaded, the default error log file changes as per +configuration. In our case, startup error messages can be found in +@file{/var/run/nginx/logs/error.log}, and after configuration in +@file{/var/log/nginx/error.log}. The second location can be changed with the +@var{log-directory} configuration option. + @end deffn @deffn {Scheme Variable} nginx-service-type diff --git a/gnu/services/web.scm b/gnu/services/web.scm index 47036f42f3..9f789707ef 100644 --- a/gnu/services/web.scm +++ b/gnu/services/web.scm @@ -237,6 +237,9 @@ of index files." (mkdir-p (string-append #$run-directory "/fastcgi_temp")) (mkdir-p (string-append #$run-directory "/uwsgi_temp")) (mkdir-p (string-append #$run-directory "/scgi_temp")) + ;; Start-up logs. Once configuration is loaded, nginx switches to + ;; log-directory. + (mkdir-p (string-append #$run-directory "/logs")) ;; Check configuration file syntax. (system* (string-append #$nginx "/sbin/nginx") "-c" #$(or config-file |