Topic: Why is Apache opening these log files?

[jhsachs]

I'm using Apache 2.2 under Windows as a local host.

I have a subdirectory in my document directory which belongs to a project that I just finished. I'll call it httpd/xyz. When I tried to archive it I was unable to move some of the files. I found that a directory named httpd/xyz/stats/logs contained a half dozen files with names like ex20091015000002-73.161.103.12.log. All of these files appear to be access logs. Apache keeps all of them open as long as it is running, but has not modified them since last October.

I tried shutting Apache down, deleting the files, and restarting. Apache failed to start. I had to undelete the files to revive it.

I looked at httpd.conf, and found one customlog directive, which refers to “logs/access.log”. Sure enough, there's an access log at that location, with a current time stamp.

I can't find anything in httpd.conf which might be telling Apache to open the access files in httpd/xyz/stats/logs. I see no additional configuration files in httpd or httpd/xyz. There's a .htaccess file in httpd/xyz/stats, but it only contains one directive, “Options +Indexes”.

What could be making Apache open these extra files? I want to delete them, but until I can persuade Apache to give them up, I can't.

[James Blond]

it mi9ght help if you post your config at http://pastebin.com/ and post here the link to it.