Problem with exporting logs from nginx running on Docker

[dawidpstrak]

I have problem trying to mount access.log and error.log from nginx running on Docker. There is also problem with reading these files using cat command. These logs files of nginx running on docker seems to be not real files to read but just symlinks that pass logs to docker stdout so we can read these logs by docker logs nginx-container.

[MatveyIvanov]

I fixed it with

RUN unlink /var/log/nginx/access.log
RUN unlink /var/log/nginx/error.log

in my nginx Dockerfile. This might not work if you have an existing volume for this files. In that case, delete the volume if possible and try again.