NGINX Cookbook

How to do it...

Firstly, we need to consider where we're pushing the logs to, syslog can be both local and network-based, so we'll cover both ways. For nearly all Linux distributions, the default syslog service is rsyslog which will be listening on the Unix socket located at /dev/log. Here's our NGINX configuration for local logging:

server { 
    listen              80; 
    server_name         syslog.nginxcookbook.com; 
    access_log syslog:server=unix:/dev/log; 
    error_log syslog:server=unix:/dev/log; 
    location /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; } 
    root /var/www; 
} 

The handling of the logs will now be done by rsyslog. By default, this will match the wildcard rule and write the log entries to /var/log/syslog for Debian- / Ubuntu-based systems and /var/log/messages ...