Python Cherrypy: Disable logging of requests

Question

I'm trying to silence the logging of http requests from CherryPy. I've tried

cherrypy.log.access_file = None

which as I understand it should remove the handler for access logging, but I can't seem to get it to work.

Kaciekacy

possible duplicate of Silencing cherrypy – Corroborant

Answer 1

Apparently, telling CherryPy to stop logging doesn't actually do anything when you've independently configured Python's logging module. The solution is to do this:

cherrypy.log.error_log.propagate = False
cherrypy.log.access_log.propagate = False

(Hat tip to this blog post, which is unfortunately now down.)

Lakia

Answer 2

This is how I normally do:

    access_log = cherrypy.log.access_log
    for handler in tuple(access_log.handlers):
        access_log.removeHandler(handler)

Consumptive

Answer 3

It says on the docs page for the latest version of CherryPy to set the handler to "" not to None

# Remove the default FileHandlers if present.
log.error_file = ""
log.access_file = ""

Swap

Thanks, but that doesn't work either. On the same page you linked to, in the classes section it says that access_file can be set to either None or ''. But neither seem to work for me. Though I can turn off logging all together by setting log.screen to false. – Kaciekacy