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Nginx Virtual Host Log Format

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$ diff -u /etc/nginx/nginx.conf{.ORIG,}
--- /etc/nginx/nginx.conf.ORIG  2014-04-13 04:15:51.907316500 +0000
+++ /etc/nginx/nginx.conf       2014-04-13 05:02:22.807316500 +0000
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@
        # Logging Settings
        ##
 
-       access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
+       log_format vhosts '$host $remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" $status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" "$http_user_agent"';
+
+       access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log vhosts;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
 
        ##

Logs can then be parsed with GoAccess

Via: https://github.com/piwik/piwik/tree/master/misc/log-analytics and http://publications.jbfavre.org/web/nginx-vhosts-automatiques-avec-SSL-et-authentification.en

azlux commented Jul 25, 2017

If you run goaccess like that :
sudo zcat -f /var/log/nginx/access.log* | goaccess --log-format=VCOMBINED -a -o ~/www/report.html
You will have an error, to I suppose you log_format isn't good.

Baa14453 commented Oct 15, 2017

I got it working, use this log format in goaccess: log-format %v %h %^[%d:%t %^] "%r" %s %b "%R" "%u"

chk1 commented Apr 10, 2018

To make nginx logging work with the GoAccess VCOMBINED log format you might have to add :$server_port like so:

log_format vcombined '$host:$server_port '
        '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
        '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent '
        '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent"';

access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log vcombined;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

quocthinh212 commented Feb 2, 2019

To make nginx logging work with the GoAccess VCOMBINED log format you might have to add :$server_port like so:

log_format vcombined '$host:$server_port '
        '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
        '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent '
        '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent"';

access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log vcombined;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

Thank you so much !