Rotatelogs - cant' seem to get it working

[PdV]

Hi gang,

 

I'm trying to get rotatelogs working so that I don't have to shut down the server in order to change the log files, but not having any success.

 

I've tried the following:

CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs logs/access.%Y.%m.%d 86400" combined

and

CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs.exe logs/access.%Y.%m.%d 86400" combined

and

CustomLog "|rotatelogs logs/access.%Y.%m.%d 86400" combined

and

CustomLog "|rotatelogs.exe logs/access.%Y.%m.%d 86400" combined

as well as various logfile names, but nothing: the server refuses to start unless I comment this out and reinstate the previous CustomLog definition.

 

Does anyone here know what I'm doing wrong?

 

I'm using Apollo on Vista Home Premium.

 

Many thanks,

Paul.

[PdV]

Well, I've been playing around with it, and I can get rotatelogs working if I use the line:

CustomLog "|w:/usr/local/apache2/bin/rotatelogs.exe w:/usr/local/apache2/logs/access.%Y.%m.%d 86400" combined

 

i.e. specify the explicit path. But this isn't really in-keeping with the spirit of Uniform Server, and I'd like to remove the explicit paths.

 

Can someone tell me what I need to do to do this please? The Apache documentation seems to indicate that my original format should have worked, but it doesn't.

 

Regards,

Paul.

[Ric]

Try this:

 

CustomLog "|/usr/local/apache2/bin/rotatelogs.exe /usr/local/apache2/logs/access.%Y.%m.%d 86400" combined

 

All the best

Ric

[PdV]

Try this:

 

CustomLog "|/usr/local/apache2/bin/rotatelogs.exe /usr/local/apache2/logs/access.%Y.%m.%d 86400" combined

 

All the best

Ric

Perfect!

 

It's easy when you know how!

 

Thanks Ric.