can i remove access.log?

[DoctorX]

hello
can i remove access.log?
it is about 14 gb in size and consume 65% of my space.

can i remove it? or what should i do?

Thanks

DoctorX Reviewed by DoctorX on 29th Jan 2011. can i remove access.log? hello can i remove access.log? it is about 14 gb in size and consume 65% of my space. can i remove it? or what should i do? Thanks Rating: 5

[desiboy]

apache log ?
you can remove it .

[jase07]

yes you can remove it. there is also an option not to create access log in apache

[DoctorX]

ok..
thank you guys.

[kolaps]

You also can set up a con job to automatically remove it every X days, or move it to a .tar.gz file...

Depend of your distro but it might be easy to setup, it usually ships with your webserver's package, but you can easily find how to on the web..

[nixhostcouk]

You can remove it, you should setup some log rotation.. 14GB of logs is never good.

[ab1ko]

You can remote the Apache access_log, nothing bad will happen.
Easiest way is to trunicate it, just execute the following command:

echo > ./access_log

If you don't need Apache access_log for statistical data processing you can revert the access_log to /dev/null