Using vhost_alias, can I set logs location to the current vhost?

Question

I'm not sure my question is clear, but here is a small explication:

I'm using apache mod_vhost_alias, which is great for me to create new domain easily (just create the according domain name folder) It is configured as is :

UseCanonicalName Off
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%0/htdocs 

However, I'd like to be able to automatically write log to /var/www/%0/logs

Is there any way to do this with such mod?

Thank you

Answer 1

As far as I can tell you can't do this out of the box. But you can log to a named pipe or directly to a script and have the script recreate the logfiles as you wish:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/logs.html#piped

If you need help with the script please post an example of your logfiles.

A non-optimized non-tested example written in shell script:

#!/bin/bash
# This assumes the host is mentioned in the first column, replace $1 with the right column if needed.
while read line
  do 
  virtualhost=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}'`
  echo $line >> /var/www/$virtualhost/log/access_log
done