created /subsystem=undertow/server= default -server/host= default -host/setting=access-log:add() disabled rotation: /subsystem=undertow/server= default -server/host= default -host/setting=access-log/:write-attribute(name=rotate,value= false ) performed server reload reload some request on server (so logfile itself is created) change of last modification time of the logfile in filesystem to yesterday, e.g.: touch -r some_propper_file logfile performed reload of the server (to reinitialize working with logfile) and request on the server again... now logfile has rotated but I expected that it won't.