How to delete logs using Apache logrotate on Windows

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Log rotation settings for Apache on Linux are configured using logrotate

Please refer to this page for information on log rotation.
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Speaking of which, I wondered how log rotation works on Windows, and after looking into it, it seems that
logs are rotated using "rotatelogs.exe," which is included with Apache on Windows, but it doesn't seem to be possible to delete them.

How to delete old logs after rotation

Check Apache log settings

Configure Apache's log file output settings in "httpd.conf".
The log output settings will be changed daily.

#Original settings ErrorLog "|bin/rotatelogs.exe logs/error-%Y%m%d-%H.log 10M -l" CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs.exe logs/access-%Y%m%d-%H.log 10M -l" common #After changing the settings ErrorLog "|bin/rotatelogs.exe logs/error_%Y%m%d.log 86400" CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs.exe logs/access_%Y%m%d.log 86400" common

The original setting is "Rotate when the log reaches 10MB," so we
will change it to "Rotate every 86,400 seconds (1 day)."

In Linux, logrotate will handle log deletion if you configure it correctly, but
in Windows, you'll need to do a bit more.

Create a batch file

You can create a batch file and run it periodically to delete old rotated files

forfiles /P "D:\Apache\logs" /D -7 /C "cmd /c del @file"

The `forfiles` command extracts files that meet certain criteria.
The meaning of each argument is as follows:

By creating a batch file like this and registering it with the Task Scheduler,
you can delete files older than x days from the rotated files.
Alternatively, you can compress old logs using a compression command (such as 7zip) instead of the `del` command
. The possibilities are endless!