IIS Log Files

We currently have a system drive that is approaching capacity very rapidly.
The space is being used by IIS log files being created in the following
directory:
C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1

Is there anyway to safely delete these logs and then prevent this from
reoccurring?

Thanks
Greg

Re: IIS Log Files

a) You can delete old log files without any issue (the log files should be
named by the day or month that they are logging requests for - depending on
your settings0

b) You can change the location that IIS creates these log files in, so as to
prevent exhausting space on your system drive

c) You can disable logging for part, or all, of the default website

Cheers
Ken

"Golforfood" wrote in message
news:ECA7C178-56CC-4F20-8DE7-AE99FCCDB109@microsoft.com...
> We currently have a system drive that is approaching capacity very
> rapidly.
> The space is being used by IIS log files being created in the following
> directory:
> C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1
>
> Is there anyway to safely delete these logs and then prevent this from
> reoccurring?
>
> Thanks
> Greg
>

Re: IIS Log Files

Hi!

You can safely delete all files if you do not want/need them. Open Windows
Explorer, navigate to the folder, select all files, and press delete.

If you do not want logging enabled, you can disable it. In IIS Manager,
right click the website with ID = 1 and click Properties. On the Web Site
tab, disable logging.

Note: Log analysing software used to generate statistics of your website
may use these log files. So before you delete them and disable logging,
make sure you do not use them. IIS itself do not need them.

--
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
http://www.gafvert.info/iis/ - IIS Related Info


Golforfood wrote:

>We currently have a system drive that is approaching capacity very rapidly.
>The space is being used by IIS log files being created in the following
>directory:
>C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1
>
>Is there anyway to safely delete these logs and then prevent this from
>reoccurring?
>
>Thanks
>Greg

Re: IIS Log Files

Ken:

Thank you so much for your response.

Greg

"Ken Schaefer" wrote:

> a) You can delete old log files without any issue (the log files should be
> named by the day or month that they are logging requests for - depending on
> your settings0
>
> b) You can change the location that IIS creates these log files in, so as to
> prevent exhausting space on your system drive
>
> c) You can disable logging for part, or all, of the default website
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> "Golforfood" wrote in message
> news:ECA7C178-56CC-4F20-8DE7-AE99FCCDB109@microsoft.com...
> > We currently have a system drive that is approaching capacity very
> > rapidly.
> > The space is being used by IIS log files being created in the following
> > directory:
> > C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1
> >
> > Is there anyway to safely delete these logs and then prevent this from
> > reoccurring?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Greg
> >
>
>