Apache server - log file too large

Hello everyone!

I have a problem on my server. I noticed that the "access" file which is inside the folder of the apache log is of 8GB. I came to know about this because my server is accusing problems of disk space (40GB only have to work).

I wonder, as this is a log file, if I can delete it (I'll do a backup in another location) and create another Apache to work because I need to free disk space. Will this create any problem?

Thank you

 

Normally this should not cause any problems, but maybe you won't be able to use web-statistics after this.

 

IS there anything else that I do? It will be problematic for me if web-statistics does not work.

 

Check if logrotation is installed and working.
Normally apache logfiles get rotated and compressed automatically.

 

Cool!! Will try this and see if this works for me. Thanks for the instant reply..