My intentions are to create an installation of apache and configure it entirely in an .conf file in the Includes directory. This went well, with one exception. The CustomLog directive seems "unoverridable". In the httpd.conf there is a line defining something like this: CustomLog "/var/log/httpd-access.log" combined Changing that line to: SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/heartbeat dontlog CustomLog "/var/log/httpd-access.log" combined env=!dontlog Will yield the effect I am after, however chancing that line to: CustomLog "/var/log/httpd-access.log" combined SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/heartbeat dontlog CustomLog "/var/log/httpd-access.log" combined env=!dontlog Does not yield the effect I am after. I conclude that the CustomLog directive cannot be overridden, which I expected to be able to.
Necro-bump: I'm seeing this behaviour in 2.4.10 and would define this as "surprising".
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