Default nginx.conf on Ubuntu 20.04 turns access_log on. Our provisioning prefers to deal in conf overrides in nginx/conf.d rather than automated file-editing (i.e. not editing the nginx.conf config but overriding it). By default we want access_log to be off. Adding an override (http block) setting access_log to go to /dev/null doesn't affect the previous declaration from nginx.conf...apby matp - Nginx Mailing List - English