A legacy application (rails 4.2.10) was uploaded for staging purposes to a new server.
The log was populating at the start, but it all stopped at a certain point. Having to load a large database from google cloud, a browser was necessary as the link is to a page, not the object to download. VNC was installed, the file accessed and downloaded and VNC uninstalled shortly thereafter.
The last log entries are for malicious actors hitting the server targetting wordpress pages. wordpress is not installed. I cannot ascertain when they correspond to VNC installation/deactivation.
But no application page hits are registered past that point in time (quite a few days).
NGINX is the web server with the passenger nginx library. In development mode, puma 4.3.5 is invoked.
Is there any way to kickstart the Rails logger?