unable to see nginx logs - nginx

Question

I am trying to confirm my logs are in json format but I cannot even see one log. I am using docker-compose
version: '3'
services:
nginx:
image: test_site
volumes:
- /Users/mikeJ/Desktop/test-logs/access:/tmp/logs/access
- /Users/mikeJ/Desktop/test-logs/error:/tmp/logs/error
build:
context: .
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "8040:8040"
ngnix.conf
worker_processes 1;
events { worker_connections 1024; }
http {
include mime.types;
sendfile on;
access_log on;
log_format json_combined escape=json
'{'
'"time_local":"$time_local",'
'"remote_addr":"$remote_addr",'
'"remote_user":"$remote_user",'
'"request":"$request",'
'"status": "$status",'
'"body_bytes_sent":"$body_bytes_sent",'
'"request_time":"$request_time",'
'"http_referrer":"$http_referer",'
'"http_user_agent":"$http_user_agent"'
'}';
server {
listen 8040;
error_log /tmp/logs/error/error.log warn;
access_log /tmp/logs/access/access.log;
server_name localhost;
location /{
root /usr/share/nginx/html/;
index index.html;
}
location ~ ^/test/footer {
root /usr/share/nginx/html/;
expires 5m;
access_log on;
}
}
dockerfile
FROM nginx:1.15.0-alpine
RUN rm -v /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
# Copying nginx configuration file
ADD nginx.conf /etc/nginx/
# setup nginx caching
RUN mkdir -p /tmp/nginx/cache
#create directory for logs
RUN mkdir -p /tmp/logs/error
RUN mkdir -p /tmp/logs/access
#adding footer file
ADD footer /usr/share/nginx/html/footer
# Expose ports
EXPOSE 8040
I even ssh into the container and nothing is there.
from inside the container
# ps aux | grep nginx
1 root 0:00 nginx: master process nginx -g daemon off;
7 nginx 0:00 nginx: worker process

Answer 1

Could you confirm if the nginx.conf is correct?
It seems that the nginx process does not have permissions to write to the directory created.
ps -eo "%U %G %a" | grep nginx
Run the command above to learn the user. It is nginx in your case.
Change the owner and group for the log directory and reload the nginx service.
#create directory for logs
RUN mkdir -p /tmp/logs/error
RUN mkdir -p /tmp/logs/access && \
chown -R nginx:nginx /tmp/logs/
#adding footer file
ADD footer /usr/share/nginx/html/footer
Check the logs folder post accessing one of your URLs.