Log rotation is already configured in apache and by default, it rotates the log files weekly as shown below in the default configuration file. But we need to change it if the log file size becomes very big in a week.

Default Configuration

[root@dbappweb ~]# cat /etc/logrotate.conf

# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create
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Rotate Log Files Daily

We can change the value for rotation of the log file from weekly to daily to reduce the size of the log file.

By default, apache keeps the log file history of 4 weeks so we need to change the value of rotate from 4 to 30 for keeping the backlog of 30 days.

[root@dbappweb ~]# vi /etc/logrotate.conf

# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files daily
daily

# keep 30 days worth of backlogs
rotate 30

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create
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 Note: I have made these changes on Apache 2.2.3 running on RHEL 5.8 server

Last Updated: May 12, 2018