nginx 'domains' logs not configured to rotate

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MHFraser

• October 09, 2025 06:32
• Edited

doing a bit of housekeeping and noticed 5GB of nginx logs (reverse proxy)

/etc/logrotate.d/nginx has config for these two locations:

• /var/log/nginx/*.log 
• /var/log/cpanel-server-traffic/web/traffic-nginx.log

but it doesn't have anything for the logs related each individual site (there's lots of these!)

/var/log/nginx/domains

I've also got an empty directory that seems like it should have the compressed & rotated logs in it?

/var/log/nginx/domains.rotated

Whats the correct logrotate config to do the logs in /var/log/nginx/domains too? 

 

 

 

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • October 09, 2025 12:56

  Hey there!  You are correct that these logs aren't processed by the standard cPanel tools as outlined here:

  https://docs.cpanel.net/knowledge-base/nginx/the-default-configuration-of-nginx-with-reverse-proxy/#log-files

  We have an example logrotate script that you can reference here:

  https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/29511079083415-NGINX-does-not-rotate-files-within-the-var-log-nginx-domains-directory

  so let me know if that does the trick for you!

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  MHFraser

  • October 10, 2025 00:35

  thank you, thats perfect! 

  I've updated logrotate so hopefully tonight I'll see a bit of space come back. 

   

  ls -lh 127*

  -rw-r----- 1 root root  15M Oct 10 10:05 127.0.0.1

  -rw-r----- 1 root root 205M Oct 10 11:29 127.0.0.1-bytes_log

  -rw-r----- 1 root root 988M Oct 10 11:31 127.0.0.1-ssl_log

   

  2.5 years of server monitoring logs :) 

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • October 10, 2025 14:40

  You're very welcome!

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  MHFraser

  • October 13, 2025 00:33

  All sorted, thanks again!

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • October 13, 2025 03:41

  Glad to hear it!!

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