On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 11:23:32AM +0400, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 07:45:29PM -0400, gyre007 wrote:
>
> > I have the following drop.conf files located in /etc/nginx/drop.conf
> >
> > location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
>
> [...]
>
> > Strange thing is when I include it in whichever server directive - ie in
> > whichever virtual host I have configured - I'm still getting favicon
> > logs in my access log. Is this a BUG ??
> > It looks like the include is simply not working ?
> >
> > Example of the virtual host I'm including this in:
> >
> > server {
>
> [...]
>
> > error_page 404 /errors/404.html;
> > location /errors/ {
> > alias /var/www/errors/;
> > internal;
> > }
>
> [...]
>
> > ***** - - [06/Jul/2012:22:16:05 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404
> > 134 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_4)
> > AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.47
> > Safari/536.11"
>
> [...]
>
> > Am I missing out something really obvious ?
>
> Requests are logged in context of a location where request
> execution ends up. As you have error_page 404 defined, and no
> favicon.ico file - error 404 is generated and redirected to
> /errors/404.html. As a result request is logged in context of
> "location /errors/" where you have access log enabled.

And BTW, this is documented here:
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_log_module.html

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