rotating nginx logs

Since moving most of my systems over to plain Ubuntu on EC2 (as opposed to using ec2OnRails) I've needed to figure out certain things - like rotating the nginx logs (using Nginx instead of apache).

Simply create a file in /etc/logrotate.d/nginx that looks like this

/opt/nginx/logs/*.log {
  daily
  missingok
  rotate 30
  compress
  delaycompress
  sharedscripts
  postrotate
    /etc/init.d/nginx restart
  endscript
}