How to disable NGINX logging with file - reactjs

Question

I am very new to Nginx and noticed that whenever I hit my server locally it logs. I was wondering, what config files do I need to create (and where do I put them) and what do I have to put into them to disable that behavior (I am trying to prevent spew). I am running my application on aws and am getting a lot of log lines of the form '172.31.22.19 - - [23/Jun/2021:23:38:33 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 3022 "-" "ELB-HealthChecker/2.0" "-"' Is there a way to disable that? Or do I need to disable everything?
My docker file is:
# pull official base image
FROM node:16 AS builder
# set working directory
WORKDIR /app
# install app dependencies
#copies package.json and package-lock.json to Docker environment
COPY package.json ./
# Installs all node packages
RUN npm install
# Copies everything over to Docker environment
COPY . ./
RUN npm run build
#Stage 2
#######################################
#pull the official nginx:1.19.0 base image
FROM nginx:1.19.0
#copies React to the container directory
# Set working directory to nginx resources directory
WORKDIR /usr/share/nginx/html
# Remove default nginx static resources
RUN rm -rf ./*
# Copies static resources from builder stage
COPY --from=builder /app/build .
EXPOSE 80
# Containers run nginx with global directives and daemon off
ENTRYPOINT ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"]
I can successfully run the above with 'docker run -p 80:80 my-app'

Answer 1

if you are using a docker run command to run the container then add the flag --log-driver none to the run command
Looking at your dockerfile youre running node and nginx in a single container. I would advise against this and seperate them into seperate containers using docker-compose
if you do this then add the line driver: none to the service running the nginx container

Answer 2

I fixed the issue by adding a nginx.conf file (see below) and changing the value of access_log to 'off'. I describe the steps I took
get the nginx.conf file:
Per What is the 'default' nginx.conf that comes with docker Nginx image? do the following:
# Create a temporary container
docker run -d --rm --name mynginx nginx
# Copy the nginx configuration in the container
docker cp mynginx:/etc/nginx .
create nginx.conf file in root of project. Mine was:
user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log notice;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log off;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#gzip on;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}
Modify Dockefile to (note the 'COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf'):
# pull official base image
FROM node:16 AS builder
# set working directory
WORKDIR /app
# install app dependencies
#copies package.json and package-lock.json to Docker environment
COPY package.json ./
# Installs all node packages
RUN npm install
# Copies everything over to Docker environment
COPY . ./
RUN npm run build
#Stage 2
#######################################
#pull the official nginx:1.19.0 base image
FROM nginx:1.19.0
COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
#copies React to the container directory
# Set working directory to nginx resources directory
WORKDIR /usr/share/nginx/html
# Remove default nginx static resources
RUN rm -rf ./*
# Copies static resources from builder stage
COPY --from=builder /app/build .
EXPOSE 80
# Containers run nginx with global directives and daemon off
ENTRYPOINT ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"]