Apache log rotation on Bitnami (Lightsail)

[Mike Witt]

I guess this is a bit of a long shot, but has anybody here ever
configured log rotation for the http logs on a bitnami lightsail
instance?

[Patrick Lewis]

This should be available via logrotate.

https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/wordpress/administration/configure-use-logrotate/

It renames the log files with numeric extensions and zips them. It also removes old rotated log files too.

[Mike Witt]

That page is where I started :-) Have you actually done it on Bitnami?
I'm apparently missing something.

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[Patrick Lewis]

I'm not sure what actions you have taken, but yes, I have gotten this to work on bitnami. Here is the relevant file to configure.

    /opt/bitnami/config/logrotate/logrotate.d/apache.conf

By default, rotation is set to weekly. Change 'weekly' to 'daily.' Test it with this command.

    sudo logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/bitnami.conf

If successful you should be able to see the results here.

    /opt/bitnami/apache2/logs 

You should see date-named, zipped files, as well as new log files.

[Mike Witt]

Patrick,

Thank you so much. I somehow (despite that very file being mentioned in
the documentation) convinced myself that I should actually add the
apache stuff to /etc/logrotate.conf. (Now I'm not sure what I was
thinking :-)

I'm going to go back and do just what you said. Thanks again!

-Mike

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