I have a working per-user virtual host configuration with Apache, but I would like each user to have access to the logs for his virtual hosts. Obviously the ErrorLog and CustomLog directives don't accept the wildcard syntax that VirtualDocumentRoot does, but is there a way to achieve logs in each user's directory?
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName *.example.com ServerAdmin [email protected] VirtualDocumentRoot /home/%2/projects/%1 <Directory /home/*/projects/> Options FollowSymlinks Indexes IndexOptions FancyIndexing FoldersFirst AllowOverride All Order Allow,Deny Allow From All Satisfy Any </Directory> Alias /favicon.ico /var/www/default/favicon.ico Alias /robots.txt /var/www/default/robots.txt LogLevel warn # ErrorLog /home/%2/logs/%1.error.log # CustomLog /home/%2/logs/%1.access.log combined </VirtualHost> Resolution: Based on @cjc's fine answer I realized I needed to do some scripting to solve this, so here's what I came up with:
#!/bin/bash ## # Write whatever comes through stdin to the log directory in each user's home directory. ## # The first field in the incoming log must be the vhost name # (%V in the Apache LogFormat). while read vhost fields; do # vhost names take the form $project.$user.$host. project="${vhost%%.*}" # Strip off everything after the first dotted name. user="${vhost#*.}" # Strip off the first dotted name. user="${user%%.*}" # Strip off everything but the first (remaining) dotted name. printf -v cmd "mkdir -p '/home/%s/log' && printf '%%s\n' '%s' >> '/home/%s/log/%s.log'" "$user" "$fields" "$user" "$project" sudo -u "$user" -- bash -c "$cmd" done 
