id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc uname nginx_version 939 acess_log with if unnecessarily accesses access_log causing error simonhf@… "Consider this conf line: access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log combined if=0; Works correctly when nginx run with sudo. But if not then we get the following error: nginx: [emerg] open() ""/var/log/nginx/access.log"" failed (13: Permission denied) The thing is, because the if condition is zero then surely it should not even be trying to access /var/log/nginx/access.log, or?" defect closed major nginx-core 1.8.x invalid access_log if Linux ubuntu 4.2.0-25-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 18 12:31:50 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux nginx version: nginx/1.8.1.8