Locations of configuration and log files of mojor components

Apache

• On RHEL/CentOS: Apache config files are placed under /etc/httpd/.

  • Main config file is /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.
  • Module config files are placed under /etc/httpd/conf.d/ (old releases) or /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/.
  • Root directory used to store web applications is /var/www, document root is /var/www/html/.
  • Log files are placed under /var/www/httpd/.

• On Debian/Ubuntu: Apache config files are placed under /etc/apache2.

  • Main config file is /etc/apache2/apache2.conf.
  • Module config files are placed under /etc/apache2/conf.d/ (old releases) or /etc/apache2/conf-available/.
  • Root directory used to store web applications is /usr/share/apache2, document root is /var/www/ (old releases) or /var/www/html/.
  • Log files are placed under /var/www/apache2/.

• On FreeBSD: Apache config files are placed under /usr/local/etc/apache2.

  • Main config file is /usr/local/etc/apache2/httpd.conf.
  • Module config files are placed under /usr/local/etc/apache2/Includes/.
  • Root directory used to store web applications is /usr/local/www/, document root is /usr/local/www/apache22/data/.
  • Log files are placed under /var/log/, main log files are /var/log/httpd-access.log and /var/log/httpd-error.log.

• On OpenBSD: Apache (the one shipped in OpenBSD base system) config files are placed under /var/www/conf.

  • Main config file is /var/www/conf/httpd.conf.
  • Module config files are placed under /var/www/conf/modules/.
  • Root directory used to store web applications is /var/www/, document root is /var/www/htdocs/.
  • Log files are placed under /var/www/logs/.

Nginx

• On Linux and OpenBSD: Nginx config files are placed under /etc/nginx/, uWSGI config files are placed under /etc/uwsgi/.
• On FreeBSD: Nginx config files are placed under /usr/local/etc/nginx, uWSGI config files are placed under /usr/local/etc/uwsgi/.

Main config files are nginx.conf and default.conf.

• On Linux and FreeBSD: log files are placed under /var/log/nginx/.
• On OpenBSD: log files are placed under /var/www/logs/ (same as Apache).

Postfix

• on Linux and OpenBSD, Postfix config files are placed under /etc/postfix/.
• on FreeBSD, Postfix config files are placed under /usr/local/etc/postfix/.

Main config files:

• main.cf: contains most configurations.
• master.cf: contains transport related settings.
• aliases: aliases for system accounts.
• helo_access.pcre: PCRE regular expressions of HELO check rules.
• ldap/*.cf: used to query mail accounts. LDAP backends only.
• mysql/*.cf: used to query mail accounts. MySQL/MariaDB backends only.
• pgsql/*.cf: used to query mail accounts. PostgreSQL backend only.

Log files

• on RHEL/CentOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, it's /var/log/maillog.
• on Debian, Ubuntu, it's /var/log/mail.log.

Dovecot

• on Linux and OpenBSD, Dovecot config files are placed under /etc/dovecot/.
• on FreeBSD, Dovecot config files are placed under /usr/local/etc/dovecot/.

Config files

Main config file is dovecot.conf. It contains most configurations.

Addition config files:

• dovecot-ldap.conf: used to query mail users and passwords. LDAP backends only.
• dovecot-mysql.conf: used to query mail users and passwords. MySQL/MariaDB backends only.
• dovecot-pgsql.conf: used to query mail users and passwords. PostgreSQL backend only.
• dovecot-used-quota.conf: used to store and query real-time per-user mailbox quota.
• dovecot-share-folder.conf: used to store settings of shared IMAP mailboxes.
• dovecot-master-users-password: used to store master users/passwords.

Log files

• /var/log/dovecot.log: main log file.
• /var/log/dovecot-sieve.log: sieve related log. NOTE: on old iRedMail releases, it's /var/log/sieve.log.
• /var/log/dovecot-lmtp.log: LMTP related log.

Amavisd

Main config files

• on RHEL/CentOS: it's /etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf.

• on Debian/Ubuntu: it's /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user.

  Debian/Ubuntu have some addition config files under /etc/amavis/conf.d/, but you can always override them in file /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user. When we mention amavisd.conf in other tutorials, it means 50-user on Debian/Ubuntu.

• on FreeBSD: it's /usr/local/etc/amavisd.conf.

• on OpenBSD: it's /etc/amavisd.conf.

Log files

Amavisd is configured to log to Postfix log file by iRedMail.

Document published under a CC BY-ND 3.0 license. If you found something wrong, please do contact us to fix it.