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Kostunrix
Joined: 29 Dec 2009
Posts: 1
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 Posted: Tue 29 Dec '09 15:48 Post subject: Problem with rotatelog |
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Hi,
I'm running Apache for some time now. I defined several virtual hosts on my machine:
| Code: | #
# Virtual Hosts
#
# If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
#
# Please see the documentation at
# <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/>
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
#
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.
#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *:80
#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not
# match a ServerName or ServerAlias in any <VirtualHost> block.
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/HTTProot"
ServerName *
ErrorLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l logs/error_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400"
CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l logs/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/HTTProot/band"
ServerName www.direction-unknown.nl
ErrorLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l logs/band/error_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400"
CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l logs/band/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/HTTProot/AtelierXL"
ServerName www.atelierxl.nl
ErrorLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l logs/atelierxl/error_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400"
CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l logs/atelierxl/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/HTTProot/mailing"
ServerName arnhem.kostunrix.net
ErrorLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l logs/mailing/error_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400"
CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l logs/mailing/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/HTTProot/joomla"
ServerName d66oud.kostunrix.net
# ErrorLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l logs/d66oud/error_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400"
# CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l logs/d66oud/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/HTTProot/Kostunrix"
ServerName www.kostunrix.net
ErrorLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l logs/kostunrix/error_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400"
CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l logs/kostunrix/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400" common
</VirtualHost>
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The d66oud server is the last one I added. I commented the log lines out deliberately.
When i start the apache server, i get errors regarding the log rotate:
| Code: | [Tue Dec 29 13:50:32 2009] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Tue Dec 29 13:50:32 2009] [notice] Child 4696: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Tue Dec 29 13:50:33 2009] [notice] Child 4696: Released the start mutex
[Tue Dec 29 13:50:34 2009] [notice] Child 4696: All worker threads have exited.
[Tue Dec 29 13:50:34 2009] [notice] Child 4696: Child process is exiting
[Tue Dec 29 13:50:34 2009] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.
[Tue Dec 29 14:10:05 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.10 (Win32) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Dec 29 14:10:05 2009] [notice] Server built: Oct 10 2008 12:39:04
[Tue Dec 29 14:10:05 2009] [notice] Parent: Created child process 4752
[Tue Dec 29 14:10:06 2009] [notice] Child 4752: Child process is running
[Tue Dec 29 14:10:06 2009] [notice] Child 4752: Acquired the start mutex.
[Tue Dec 29 14:10:06 2009] [notice] Child 4752: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Tue Dec 29 14:10:06 2009] [notice] Child 4752: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/band/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/band/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/band/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/band/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/band/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/band/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/band/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/band/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
piped log program 'bin/rotatelogs -l logs/band/access_log_%Y%m%d.txt 86400' failed unexpectedly
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The silly thing is: it sometimes works (and when it works I don't get any error at all, can restart server, no problems) and sometimes don't. Every time i add a new virtual host, i have these errors, or not. But I don't understand when i get them and when not.
The sillyt hing is: the server nicely writes to the log files.... but keeps telling me these errors. In 20 minutes the log file grows to about 285 KB.
I searched the web and found a very old bug report regarding this issue. The reported situation (https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21648) looks like my problem, but is for an older version. I expect the fix is incorporated in later versions.
Has anyone a clue for me ?
Kind regards,
Maarten |
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7371
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
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| Posted: Tue 05 Jan '10 11:02 Post subject: |
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| Which version of apache do you use? |
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crispi
Joined: 29 Jul 2010
Posts: 2
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| Posted: Thu 29 Jul '10 23:03 Post subject: |
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| Did you ever find the answer? I'm having the same problem. |
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7371
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
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| Posted: Thu 29 Jul '10 23:05 Post subject: |
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| Yepp using mod_log_rotate, but it doesn't work for the error log. |
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black_harry
Joined: 22 Feb 2010
Posts: 15
Location: Germany, Stuttgart
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| Posted: Fri 30 Jul '10 8:44 Post subject: |
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I had the same problem - and found a solution:
it's no problem to use rotatelogs for several logs like access.log + error.log + xxxx.log
You only have to specify the complete path (... | c:/Apache2.2/ ...) if you use more than 1 piped program.
Example:
bad:
| Code: | CustomLog "| /bin/rotatelogs.exe -l c:/Apache2.2/logs/access_%Y%m%d.log 86400" common
ErrorLog "| /bin/rotatelogs.exe -l c:/Apache2.2/logs/error_%Y%m%d.log 86400" |
good:
| Code: | CustomLog "| c:/Apache2.2/bin/rotatelogs.exe -l c:/Apache2.2/logs/access_%Y%m%d.log 86400" common
ErrorLog "| c:/Apache2.2/bin/rotatelogs.exe -l c:/Apache2.2/logs/error_%Y%m%d.log 86400" |
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crispi
Joined: 29 Jul 2010
Posts: 2
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| Posted: Fri 30 Jul '10 21:14 Post subject: |
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Hm. Our rotate log command is
| Code: | | CustomLog "|C:/Apache2.2/bin/rotatelogs.exe L:/apache/logs/siteurl_custom_%Y-%m-%d.log 86400" common |
And it still fails.
Is it an issue that it is running on a windows server? |
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rpadmin
Joined: 03 Mar 2017
Posts: 1
Location: US, CA
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| Posted: Sat 04 Mar '17 0:28 Post subject: |
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| crispi wrote: | Hm. Our rotate log command is
| Code: | | CustomLog "|C:/Apache2.2/bin/rotatelogs.exe L:/apache/logs/siteurl_custom_%Y-%m-%d.log 86400" common |
And it still fails.
Is it an issue that it is running on a windows server? |
Hello,
We just migated our old Windows 32-bit Apache reverse proxy to the new Windows 64-bit Apache 2.4 and we are seeing the same issue with rotatelog.exe.
We haave the below in the conf:
CustomLog "| D:/logs/rotatelogs.exe -l D:/logs/Apache2.4/hostname_ssl-access.log 86400" common
ErrorLog "| D:/logs/rotatelogs.exe -l D:/logs/Apache2.4/hostname_ssl-error.log 86400"
But we are getting the piped log error:
AH00106: piped log program ' D:/logs/rotatelogs.exe D:/logs/Apache2.4/hostanme_ssl-access.log 86400' failed unexpectedly
Have anyone had this same issue on Apache 2.4 64-bit?
Thanks for your help in advance! |
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68dkj4i9dk4
Joined: 08 Jul 2019
Posts: 1
Location: US, Garden Grove
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| Posted: Mon 08 Jul '19 8:25 Post subject: This is liklely a bug in Apache |
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After spending a full day troubleshooting this same type of error message, I am convinced this is a bug with Apache.
I'm encountering this same issue on 2 different web servers running Apache.
Server 1
Windows 8 64-bit
Apache 2.4.12, installed as part of XAMPP package.
Server 2
Windows 10 64-bit
Apache 2.4.27, installed standalone.
I believe both machines are running 64 bit versions of Apache. I don't know how to confirm, though.
Below is the piping command I am using for the Windows 8 machine:
| Code: | | CustomLog "|C:/xampp/php/php.exe C:/xampp/apache/logs/send_to_elasticsearch.php" common |
Below is the error entry that fills up my log
| Code: | | AH00106: piped log program 'C:/xampp/php/php.exe C:/xampp/apache/logs/send_to_elasticsearch.php' failed unexpectedly |
I thought maybe the issue was that my PHP script wasn't properly terminating after it was done processing, so I tried to dumb it down as much as possible, but still the errors continue. I can confirm that the piping command is properly being carried out. Everything works fine, despite these odd errors that continue to fill my error logs. |
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7371
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
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| Posted: Thu 18 Jul '19 10:40 Post subject: Re: This is liklely a bug in Apache |
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| 68dkj4i9dk4 wrote: |
I believe both machines are running 64 bit versions of Apache. I don't know how to confirm, though.
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with httpd.exe -V you can verify that.
| 68dkj4i9dk4 wrote: |
Below is the piping command I am using for the Windows 8 machine:
| Code: | | CustomLog "|C:/xampp/php/php.exe C:/xampp/apache/logs/send_to_elasticsearch.php" common |
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It might be easier to save the logs in the correct format and process them with a cronjob / windows task.
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LogFormat "{ \"time\":\"%t\", \"remoteIP\":\"%a\", \"host\":\"%V\", \"request\":\"%U\", \"query\":\"%q\", \"method\":\"%m\", \"status\":\"%>s\", \"userAgent\":\"%{User-agent}i\", \"referer\":\"%{Referer}i\" }" json
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| 68dkj4i9dk4 wrote: |
Below is the error entry that fills up my log
| Code: | | AH00106: piped log program 'C:/xampp/php/php.exe C:/xampp/apache/logs/send_to_elasticsearch.php' failed unexpectedly |
I thought maybe the issue was that my PHP script wasn't properly terminating after it was done processing, so I tried to dumb it down as much as possible, but still the errors continue. I can confirm that the piping command is properly being carried out. Everything works fine, despite these odd errors that continue to fill my error logs. |
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Apache expects a certain return code. I forgot which one. |
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