Why is nginx not logging?

Question

Nginx

location /method {
    rewrite ^/method/(.*) /proxy.php?qbv=$1 last;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/proxy.log;
}

rewirte works, but the log is not written. How to fix?

Answer 1

touch /var/log/nginx/proxy.log
chown nginx:nginx /var/log/nginx/proxy.log