Neo4j http.log empty

Question

I'm trying to turn on http logging for an Enterprise 2.0 Neo4j server.

After following this documentation, and adding the following likes to neo4j-server.properties:

org.neo4j.server.http.log.enabled=true

# Logging policy file that governs how HTTP log output is presented and
# archived. Note: changing the rollover and retention policy is sensible, but
# changing the output format is less so, since it is configured to use the
# ubiquitous common log format
org.neo4j.server.http.log.config=conf/neo4j-http-logging.xml

the data/log/http.log file is still zero bytes even after restarting the server and then running a basic Ruby script that inserts nodes (upon request if needed).

I'm guessing I'm missing something completely obvious here so bear with me. Thanks.

UPDATE on 9/26/14

I'm still seeing this issue for Neo4j 2.1.2

Answer 1

has anyone managed to get the http logs to work?

There was a possible solution on google groups that you could touch the http.log file before starting the server, but still get an empty log file.

For the time being we might try to put a reverse proxy in to log the req and response.