This is the default example configuration of nginx provided by nginx. This config file was generated by nginx running on Ubuntu 14.04.
It is located under: /etc/logrotate.d/nginx
/var/log/nginx/*.log {
weekly
missingok
rotate 52
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
create 0640 www-data adm
sharedscripts
prerotate
if [ -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate ]; then \
run-parts /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate; \
fi \
endscript
postrotate
[ -s /run/nginx.pid ] && kill -USR1 `cat /run/nginx.pid`
endscript
}
Download the raw file with wget or curl
wget -O nginx.example http://exampleconfig.com/static/raw/nginx/ubuntu14.04/etc/logrotate.d/nginx
curl http://exampleconfig.com/static/raw/nginx/ubuntu14.04/etc/logrotate.d/nginx > nginx.example
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