No, the logs are written as root, not as apache/nobody/www-data.  Giving 
that unprivileged account access to your logs is a potential security 
issue.  Read 'Permissions on ServerRoot Directories' here : 
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/security_tips.html

Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> Make sure the user apache has access to write those logs, perhaps even
> (as root) chown apache:apache /var/log/html
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> Craig White
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:30 PM
> To: gm5729@gmail.com; Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Wiki/Apache Issues
> 
> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 13:22 -0700, GK wrote:
>> 0 root@shuttle: /var/log/apache2/httpd
>> Wed Aug 13, 13:18 # cat error_log
>> [Tue Aug 12 20:48:04 2008] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could
> not 
>> open transfer log file /var/log/httpd/access_log.
>> Unable to open logs
>> [Tue Aug 12 20:48:53 2008] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could
> not 
>> open transfer log file /var/log/httpd/access_log.
>> Unable to open logs
>> [Tue Aug 12 20:48:59 2008] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could
> not 
>> open transfer log file /var/log/httpd/access_log.
>> Unable to open logs
>> [Tue Aug 12 20:49:43 2008] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could
> not 
>> open transfer log file /var/log/httpd/access_log.
>> Unable to open logs
>>
>> ::1 - - 
>> [13/Aug/2008:12:42:34 -0700] "GET
> /phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin.css.php?token=efdb69e927969d4aa88deed0aaedf75a&js
> _frame=right&nocache=3650775686 
>> HTTP/1.1" 200 20584 "http://localhost:8080/phpmyadmin/" "Mozilla/5.0 
>> (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.9 (like Gecko) (Debian)"
>> ::1 - - [13/Aug/2008:12:43:54 -0700] "GET /TWiki-4.2.2/bin/view
> HTTP/1.1" 404 
>> 218 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.9
> (like 
>> Gecko) (Debian)"
>> 85.190.0.3 - - [13/Aug/2008:12:45:45 -0700] "CONNECT 213.92.8.7:31204 
>> HTTP/1.0" 405 225 "-" "-"
>> ::1 - - [13/Aug/2008:12:54:05 -0700] "GET /TWiki-4.2.2/bin/view
> HTTP/1.1" 404 
>> 218 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.9
> (like 
>> Gecko) (Debian)"
>> 127.0.1.1 - - [13/Aug/2008:12:54:27 -0700] "GET /TWiki-4.2.2/bin/view 
>> HTTP/1.1" 404 218 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) 
>> KHTML/3.5.9 (like Gecko) (Debian)"
>> 127.0.1.1 - - [13/Aug/2008:12:54:27 -0700] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1"
> 404 
>> 209 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.9
> (like 
>> Gecko) (Debian)"
>> ::1 - - [13/Aug/2008:12:54:38 -0700] "GET /TWiki-4.2.2/bin/view
> HTTP/1.1" 404 
>> 218 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.9
> (like 
>> Gecko) (Debian)"
> ----
> as root...
> 
> mkdir /var/log/httpd
> 
> restart apache
> 
> Craig
> 
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