Nginx centminmod nginx logging settings

Yes access log buffering delays writing immediately to the access log for better performance http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_log_module.html

Yeah static file request logging is disabled by default in the default include file /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf which is added to each Nginx virtual host (can be directly accessed as per FAQ 16 at http://centminmod.com/faq.html via command shortcut = statfilesinc)

contents of /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf

Code:

    location ~* \.(3gp|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|ico|wmv|avi|asf|asx|mpg|mpeg|mp4|pls|mp3|mid|wav|swf|flv|exe|zip|tar|rar|gz|tgz|bz2|uha|7z|doc|docx|xls|xlsx|pdf|iso)$ {
        gzip_static off;
        #add_header Pragma public;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
        access_log off;
        expires 30d;
        break;
        }

    location ~* \.(js)$ {
        #add_header Pragma public;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
        access_log off;
        expires 30d;
        break;
        }

    location ~* \.(css)$ {
        #add_header Pragma public;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
        access_log off;
        expires 30d;
        break;
        }

    location ~* \.(html|htm|txt)$ {
        #add_header Pragma public;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
        access_log off;
        expires 1d;
        break;
        }

    location ~* \.(eot|svg|ttf|woff)$ {
        #add_header Pragma public;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
        access_log off;
        expires 30d;
        break;
        }

The reason this was done was Centmin Mod original features came from original Centmin script which was for low end memory based VPSes - 256-512MB types with low 5-20GB disk space allocations. So reducing memory and disk space usage is important by disabling static file logging

If you have enough memory and disk space, then re-enabling logging by commenting out with a hash # in front of each access_log off; line and restarting Nginx, would be useful for stats logging software such as Awstats (yeah another reason why stats logging isn't installed by default = to save memory and disk resources). Easier to just use Google Analytics which is what I do as I have VPS with memory as low as 128MB using tweak outlined in Getting Started guide at http://centminmod.com/getstarted.html#lowmem

 

Yeah right now no such tool for per virtual host traffic stats. Maybe in the future