The error. Log File in Apache is too large.

How to clear error. log and access. log and limit Apache Log File Size
One customer reported that the VPs website could not be opened. After logging on to the system, the customer was in win2003 and found that the D disk where the website files were placed was full and the available space was 0 kb, go in and find the error log error of the customer's Apache server. the log is very large, causing the D disk to be full.

Search the relevant information on the Internet and perform the following steps to restore the website to normal.

Step 1: Stop all processes of the Apache service and delete the error. log and access. log files in The apache2/logs/directory.

Step 2: Open the httpd. conf configuration file of Apache and find the following two configurations:

Errorlog logs/error. Log
Customlog logs/access. Log common

Directly comment out and replace it with the following configuration file.

# Restrict the error log file to 1 MB
Errorlog "| bin/rotatelogs.exe-l logs/error-% Y-% m-% d. Log 1m"

# Generate an error log file every day
# Errorlog "| bin/rotatelogs.exe-l logs/error-% Y-% m-% d. Log 86400"

# Restrict access log files to 1 MB
Customlog "| bin/rotatelogs.exe-l logs/access-% Y-% m-% d. Log 1m mlog" common

# Generate an access log file every day
# Customlog "| bin/rotatelogs.exe-l log/access-% Y-% m-% d. Log 86400" common