How does one use Apache in a Docker Container and write nothing to disk (all logs to STDIO / STDERR)?

Question

I\'m running Apache2 in a docker container and want to write nothing to the disk, writing logs to stdout and stderr. I\'ve seen a few different ways to do this (Supervisord and

Answer 1

I'm not positive that this won't mess with httpd's logging at all (e.g. if it tries to seek within the file), but you can set up symlinks from the log paths to /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr, like so:

ln -sf /dev/stdout /path/to/access.log
ln -sf /dev/stderr /path/to/error.log

The entry command to the vanilla httpd container from Docker Hub could be made to be something like

ln -sf /dev/stdout /path/to/access.log && ln -sf /dev/stderr /path/to/error.log && /path/to/httpd