id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	uname	nginx_version
1462	Logging directory is always /var/log on startup	asymetrixs@…		"Configuration is:
error_log /test/dir/error.log;
access_log /test/dir/access.log;

When starting nginx, it always tries to write to /var/log/nginx/error.log first (as compiled), before using the value configured in the configuration file.

> nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() ""/var/log/nginx/error.log"" failed (2: No such file or directory)

Please make it read the configuration file first and then (try to) log anything."	defect	closed	minor		nginx-core	1.13.x	duplicate	logging		SunOS host 5.10 Generic_150401-50 i86pc i386 i86pc	"nginx version: nginx/1.13.8 (i386-sun-solaris2.10)
build by gcc .3.0 (GCC)
build with OpenSSL 1.0.2k 26 Jan 2017
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --build-i386-sun-solaris2.10 --prefix=/foo/bar --sbin-path=/foo/bar/bin/nginx --conf-path=/foo/bar/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --with-cc=/foo/bar/bin/gcc --with-cpp=/foo/bar/bin/cpp --with-ld-opt='-L /foo/bar/lib' --with-cc-opt='-I /foo/bar/include' --with-threads --with-stream_ssl_module --with-stream --with-stream_ssl_prepared_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_v2_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_auth_request_module --with-http_random_index_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-hhtp_degradation_module --with-http_slice_module --with-http_stub_satutus_module --with-http_perl_module --with-perl=/foo/bar/bin/perl --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --modules-path=/foo/bar/libexec/ngnx --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid"