fix: nginx syslog access_log tag must not contain a hyphen
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The nginx_access syslog tag added in #37 (feat/emily-incident-logging)
used tag=nginx-access. nginx's syslog sink only accepts alphanumeric
characters and underscores in the tag field, so the generated
nginx.conf failed its config test on linode:

  nginx: [emerg] syslog "tag" only allows alphanumeric characters
  and underscore in .../nginx.conf:114

Because nginx-pre-start failed, nginx.service crash-looped until it
hit systemd's start-limit-hit and gave up entirely. Since Nextcloud is
proxied through nginx (127.0.0.1:8080, fronted by haproxy's 'next'
backend), this took next.thehellings.com down with a 503 from haproxy
(phpfpm-nextcloud/postgresql/redis backends were all healthy and
unaffected - purely an nginx config parse failure).

Fix: use an underscore (nginx_access) instead of a hyphen.
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@@ -325,10 +325,19 @@ in
# Route nginx access logs through syslog/journald (rather than only to # Route nginx access logs through syslog/journald (rather than only to
# /var/log/nginx/access.log, which the read-only monitoring account # /var/log/nginx/access.log, which the read-only monitoring account
# can't read) so `journalctl -t nginx-access` gives visibility into # can't read) so `journalctl -t nginx_access` gives visibility into
# Nextcloud request traffic during bandwidth investigations. # Nextcloud request traffic during bandwidth investigations.
#
# NOTE: nginx's syslog "tag" only allows alphanumeric characters and
# underscores (no hyphens) - an earlier version of this used
# tag=nginx-access, which fails nginx's config test with:
# nginx: [emerg] syslog "tag" only allows alphanumeric characters
# and underscore in .../nginx.conf:114
# That broke nginx.service (and, transitively, Nextcloud/next.thehellings.com,
# which is proxied through nginx on 127.0.0.1:8080) until nginx hit its
# systemd restart limit and gave up (start-limit-hit).
appendHttpConfig = '' appendHttpConfig = ''
access_log syslog:server=unix:/dev/log,tag=nginx-access combined; access_log syslog:server=unix:/dev/log,tag=nginx_access combined;
''; '';
}; };