My apache log files on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine in the /var/log/apache2/ do not seem to be rotating. I had this problem in the past and had to manually rotate the log file, but it looks like it still is not rotating automatically.

I ran sudo logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf to try and manually rotate the log in case the cron was having issues. I also ran this as root to avoid permission issues if this was the case. Still did not rotate, despite the output appearing like it did. Here is the relevant information logrotate returned:

rotating pattern: /var/log/apache2/*.log  weekly (52 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
switching euid to 0 and egid to 104
considering log /var/log/apache2/access.log
  log needs rotating
considering log /var/log/apache2/error.log
  log needs rotating
rotating log /var/log/apache2/access.log, log->rotateCount is 52
dateext suffix '-20160404'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
compressing log with: /bin/gzip
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.52.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.53.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 52),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.51.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.52.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 51),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.50.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.51.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 50),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.49.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.50.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 49),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.48.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.49.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 48),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.47.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.48.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 47),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.46.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.47.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 46),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.45.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.46.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 45),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.44.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.45.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 44),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.43.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.44.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 43),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.42.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.43.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 42),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.41.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.42.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 41),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.40.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.41.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 40),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.39.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.40.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 39),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.38.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.39.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 38),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.37.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.38.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 37),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.36.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.37.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 36),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.35.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.36.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 35),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.34.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.35.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 34),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.33.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.34.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 33),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.32.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.33.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 32),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.31.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.32.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 31),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.30.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.31.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 30),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.29.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.30.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 29),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.28.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.29.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 28),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.27.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.28.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 27),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.26.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.27.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 26),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.25.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.26.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 25),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.24.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.25.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 24),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.23.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.24.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 23),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.22.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.23.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 22),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.21.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.22.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 21),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.20.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.21.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 20),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.19.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.20.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 19),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.18.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.19.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 18),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.17.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.18.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 17),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.16.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.17.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 16),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.15.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.16.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 15),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.14.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.15.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 14),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.13.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.14.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 13),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.12.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.13.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 12),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.11.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.12.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 11),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.10.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.11.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 10),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.9.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.10.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 9),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.8.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.9.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 8),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.7.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.8.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 7),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.6.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.7.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 6),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.5.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.6.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 5),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.4.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.5.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 4),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.3.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.4.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 3),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.2.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.3.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 2),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.1.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.2.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 1),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log.0.gz to /var/log/apache2/access.log.1.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 0),
rotating log /var/log/apache2/error.log, log->rotateCount is 52
dateext suffix '-20160404'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
compressing log with: /bin/gzip
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.52.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.53.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 52),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.51.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.52.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 51),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.50.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.51.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 50),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.49.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.50.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 49),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.48.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.49.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 48),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.47.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.48.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 47),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.46.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.47.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 46),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.45.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.46.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 45),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.44.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.45.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 44),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.43.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.44.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 43),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.42.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.43.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 42),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.41.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.42.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 41),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.40.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.41.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 40),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.39.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.40.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 39),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.38.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.39.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 38),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.37.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.38.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 37),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.36.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.37.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 36),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.35.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.36.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 35),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.34.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.35.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 34),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.33.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.34.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 33),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.32.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.33.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 32),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.31.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.32.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 31),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.30.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.31.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 30),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.29.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.30.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 29),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.28.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.29.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 28),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.27.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.28.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 27),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.26.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.27.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 26),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.25.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.26.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 25),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.24.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.25.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 24),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.23.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.24.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 23),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.22.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.23.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 22),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.21.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.22.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 21),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.20.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.21.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 20),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.19.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.20.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 19),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.18.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.19.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 18),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.17.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.18.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 17),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.16.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.17.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 16),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.15.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.16.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 15),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.14.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.15.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 14),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.13.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.14.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 13),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.12.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.13.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 12),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.11.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.12.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 11),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.10.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.11.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 10),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.9.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.10.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 9),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.8.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.9.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 8),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.7.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.8.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 7),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.6.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.7.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 6),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.5.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.6.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 5),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.4.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.5.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 4),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.3.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.4.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 3),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.2.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.3.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 2),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.1.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.2.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 1),
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log.0.gz to /var/log/apache2/error.log.1.gz (rotatecount 52, logstart 1, i 0),
rotating log /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log, log->rotateCount is 52
running prerotate script
running script with arg /var/log/apache2/*.log : "
                if [ -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate ]; then \
                        run-parts /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate; \
                fi; \
"
renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log to /var/log/apache2/access.log.1
creating new /var/log/apache2/access.log mode = 0640 uid = 0 gid = 4
renaming /var/log/apache2/error.log to /var/log/apache2/error.log.1
creating new /var/log/apache2/error.log mode = 0640 uid = 0 gid = 4
renaming /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log to /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log.1
creating new /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log mode = 0640 uid = 0 gid = 4
running postrotate script
running script with arg /var/log/apache2/*.log : "
                if /etc/init.d/apache2 status > /dev/null ; then \
                    /etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null; \
                fi;
"
removing old log /var/log/apache2/access.log.53.gz
error: error opening /var/log/apache2/access.log.53.gz: No such file or directory
switching euid to 0 and egid to 0

Both the error.log and access.log share the same problem. If you look at the access log files you'll notice the only one ever being touched is the access.log file and nothing is being rotated:

-rw-r----- 1 root adm  1.1G Apr  5 00:10 access.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm  165M Dec  6 00:12 access.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   18M Oct  5  2015 access.log.10.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   14M Sep 27  2015 access.log.11.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   19M Sep 21  2015 access.log.12.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   16M Sep 13  2015 access.log.13.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   14M Sep  6  2015 access.log.14.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   19M Aug 31  2015 access.log.15.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   15M Aug 23  2015 access.log.16.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   20M Aug 17  2015 access.log.17.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   15M Aug  9  2015 access.log.18.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   20M Aug  3  2015 access.log.19.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm  3.9M Jul 26  2015 access.log.20.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   20M Nov 30 00:12 access.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   15M Nov 22 00:12 access.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   16M Nov 16 00:12 access.log.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   15M Nov  8 00:12 access.log.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   13M Nov  1 00:12 access.log.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   18M Oct 26 00:12 access.log.7.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   16M Oct 18 00:12 access.log.8.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   14M Oct 11 00:12 access.log.9.gz

It even says write in the output:

renaming /var/log/apache2/access.log to /var/log/apache2/access.log.1
creating new /var/log/apache2/access.log mode = 0640 uid = 0 gid = 4

So I am confused if this is apparently happening why nothing is actually happening? Can anyone identify the resolution to this problem?

Edit:
In case it is relevant here is what my /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 file looks like:

/var/log/apache2/*.log {
        weekly
        missingok
        rotate 52
        compress
        delaycompress
        notifempty
        create 640 root adm
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                if /etc/init.d/apache2 status > /dev/null ; then \
                    /etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null; \
                fi;
        endscript
        prerotate
                if [ -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate ]; then \
                        run-parts /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate; \
                fi; \
        endscript
}

When I manually ran logrotate via sudo logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf the log correctly rotated. It looks like above I had -d which was causing the log to not rotate when I tried it manually. It seems like this is now an issue to do with the cron, and logrotate possibly not actually being ran in the cron?

Looking in my cron folders I do have a logrotate script at /etc/cron.daily/logrotate that looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

# Clean non existent log file entries from status file
cd /var/lib/logrotate
test -e status || touch status
head -1 status > status.clean
sed 's/"//g' status | while read logfile date
do
    [ -e "$logfile" ] && echo "\"$logfile\" $date"
done >> status.clean
mv status.clean status

test -x /usr/sbin/logrotate || exit 0
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

It seems like this should mean logrotate is running daily so there should be no problem with it not running?