> On Jun 27, 2019, at 1:10 PM, Peter Bittner <peter.bitt...@gmx.net> wrote: > > Hi there! > > In my day job I'm helping to get applications from traditional > environments running in cloud environments. Cloud native applications > are just "normal" applications, but there are a few properties that > they should satisfy (apart from resiliency and scalability). > > For logging this boils down to what is prescribed by the 12-factor > app: The log output should be a continuous stream, i.e. simply log to > the terminal. > > Now, as of today, at least on Debian based container images, the > behavior of Apache is to write to /var/log/apache2/access.log and > /var/log/apache2/error.log by default. We try to compensate this by > making those files symbolic links to /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr. > We're doing this also, because there seem to be cases when a log entry > is written _before_ it is configured via the Apache configuration > file. > > From my perspective it would be advantageous to have Apache write to > the terminal by default (i.e. no hardcoded log file locations) and > allow to override this behavior via the Apache configuration file. > > Is there any reason why the default behavior is not that way yet?
I assume you meant to send this to the dev@ list for the httpd project? http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html Mark
