I’m using nginx/1.22.1 as a reverse proxy and like to make the proxy log into different files. I’v a longish /etc/nginx/sites-available/default with quite a few different access_log-settings. Most of them do work perfectly fine and do write different access-logs. But there is one server driving me c…

Thanks for the follow up @ChrisCross !

Reverse proxy does not write access-log as expected

ChrisCross February 3, 2026, 9:03pm 2

OK, it all works as it should if one edits the correct config. Symlinks are pretty tricky. Autsch!

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