logrotate

A complete script for logrotate. Rotate the log daily, restart the web server (here insinde a container) and copy the log to another location, someone else can analyze it later.

/var/log/nginx/nginx.access.log {
  create
  daily
  rotate 7
  compress
  missingok
  dateext
  dateformat -%Y%m%d
  compresscmd gzip
  compressext .gz

  # restart nginx in proxy container
  postrotate
    /usr/bin/docker exec -it nginx-proxy /etc/init.d/nginx reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
  endscript

  # copy the logs to angelfish nas share
  lastaction
    chown user1.group1 /var/log/nginx/nginx.access.log-$(date '+%Y%m%d').gz
    cp /var/log/nginx/nginx.access.log-$(date '+%Y%m%d').gz /mnt/nas/nginx.access.log-$(date '+%Y%m%d').gz
  endscript
}