# Prevent /shared/log/rails/production.log

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**Created:** [January 31, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-shared-log-rails-production-log/293637 "2024-01-31T14:25:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-shared-log-rails-production-log/293637/6 "2024-02-02T16:32:36Z")

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In my case I see the log responds to pointless malicious access attempts - perhaps that’s not useful and can be reconfigured not to happen?

```plaintext
ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [HEAD] "/passwords.txt")
...
ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/.env")

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