Rotating web server logs without restarting Apache

[Holger Kipp]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 08:45:43AM +0800, Ladislav Bodnar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Every time my httpd-access.log file is rotated I need to restart Apache, 
> otherwise it won't write into the new httpd-access.log file.

I usually use something like

CustomLog "|/usr/local/sbin/rotatelogs /var/log/apache/logname.%Y%m%d%H 3600" combined

This will automatically write to a new file every hour. See "man rotatelogs".
rotatelogs is part of apache installation afaik.

Regards,
Holger Kipp
alogis AG, Berlin