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As the question says, I can find access logs upto 1 month old in the /var/logs/httpd folder. Where do I get older access logs from?

Are they even maintained/saved anywhere or deleted?

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Have a log at your logrotate settings for those particular logs. You'll see the time interval for it to start a new log and how many copies it must keep. Anything prior to that gets deleted, so you would need to restore them from your backups.

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Thanks. Where do I see these? I don't see a rotate or a logrotate in my httpd.conf – lostInTransit Feb 18 '12 at 10:51
@lostInTransit, logrotate is not part of Apache, it's a system utility, so you'll find its settings in /etc and/or a sub-directory of /etc. On my Debian system what you're looking for is in /etc/logrotate.d/apache2. – John Gardeniers Feb 18 '12 at 10:56
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Usually they are deleted.

It all depends on the specific distribution you're using, but most use logrotate to compress and delete old log files. This configuration should be in /etc/logrotate.conf and individual files in /etc/logrotate.d

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