How to turn off or specify the nginx error log location?

Question

I compiled the nginx on Ubuntu myself. I start my nginx with -c nginx.conf parameter. In my nginx.conf file, I try to turn off error log with but failed.

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Answer 1

I solved this issue using the -p parameter when starting nginx e.g:

/home/ubuntu/nginx/sbin/nginx -c /home/ubuntu/nginx/conf/nginx.conf -p /home/ubuntu/nginx

This will prepend any log paths specified in the config with the prefix directory.