How to disable robots.txt logging in Nginx?

Question

Nginx

location = /robots.txt {
  allow all;
  log_not_found off;
  access_log off;
}

This option makes robots.txt unavailable - 404 error.
How to disable logging for robots.txt?

Answer 1

Thanks to Lynn "Coffeeman"

server {
    listen      172.67.196.42:443;
    server_name iherney.com www.iherney.com *.demo.iherney.com;
    ssl         on;
    ssl_certificate      /home/iherney/conf/web/ssl.iherney.com.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key  /home/iherney/conf/web/ssl.iherney.com.key;
    error_log  /var/log/apache2/domains/iherney.com.error.log error;
    root           /home/iherney/web/iherney.com/public_html;

    location / {
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

        proxy_pass      https://172.67.196.42:8443;
        location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|svg|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|odt|ods|odp|odf|tar|wav|bmp|rtf|js|mp3|avi|mpeg|flv|html|htm)$ {
            root           /home/iherney/web/iherney.com/public_html;
            access_log     /var/log/apache2/domains/iherney.com.log combined;
            access_log     /var/log/apache2/domains/iherney.com.bytes bytes;
            expires        max;
            try_files      $uri @fallback;
        }
    }

    location = /robots.txt {
        allow all;
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
    }

    location /error/ {
        alias   /home/iherney/web/iherney.com/document_errors/;
    }

    location @fallback {
        proxy_pass      https://172.67.196.42:8443;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht    {return 404;}
    location ~ /\.svn/  {return 404;}
    location ~ /\.git/  {return 404;}
    location ~ /\.hg/   {return 404;}
    location ~ /\.bzr/  {return 404;}

    include /home/iherney/conf/web/snginx.iherney.com.conf*;
}

Answer 2

Your variant does not work, because, apparently, no processing is provided outside this location. Either duplicate what happens on the rest of the site inside, or make this location nested in the main one.

Answer 3

OpenWRT Nginx - how to disable access.log if it doesn't understand "access_log" directive?
the option of logs in dev zero is also available