id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	uname	nginx_version
1077	[1.11.4_1] error_log location not respected	serge-vk@…		"Since the update from 1.11.3 to 1.11.4_1, Nginx does not respect custom locations of error logs (but does respect the access_log location).

Regardless of the presence of `error_log` statement in `nginx.conf`, the error log is always created in `/var/log/nginx/error.log`. If the `/var/log/nginx` folder is removed, an attempt to start nginx (`service nginx start`) or even test configuration (`nginx -t`) produces this error message, followed by start-up output normally sent to the error log:
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nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() ""/var/log/nginx/error.log"" failed (2: No such file or directory)
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Downgrading to 1.11.3 restores normal behaviour"	defect	closed	minor		nginx-core	1.11.x	duplicate	nginx.conf error_log		FreeBSD BSD-Web.local 10.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE #0 r297264: Fri Mar 25 02:10:02 UTC 2016     root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64	"nginx version: nginx/1.11.4
built with OpenSSL 1.0.2h  3 May 2016
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/local/etc/nginx --with-cc-opt='-I /usr/local/include' --with-ld-opt='-L /usr/local/lib' --conf-path=/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --user=www --group=www --modules-path=/usr/local/libexec/nginx --with-file-aio --with-ipv6 --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/client_body_temp --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/fastcgi_temp --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/proxy_temp --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/scgi_temp --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/uwsgi_temp --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --add-module=/var/ports/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/ngx_cache_purge-2.3 --add-dynamic-module=/var/ports/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/echo-nginx-module-46334b3 --with-http_geoip_module=dynamic --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_perl_module=dynamic --add-module=/var/ports/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/ngx_http_response-0.3 --add-module=/var/ports/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/ngx_http_substitutions_filter_module-0.6.4 --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_slice_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_sub_module --add-module=/var/ports/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/mod_zip-ca0b345 --add-module=/var/ports/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/modsecurity-2.9.1/nginx/modsecurity --with-pcre --add-module=/var/ports/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/redis2-nginx-module-0.12 --with-http_v2_module --with-stream=dynamic --with-stream_ssl_module --with-threads --with-http_ssl_module --add-dynamic-module=/var/ports/usr/ports/www/nginx-devel/work/ngx_brotli-ada972b"