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/var/log/apache2/access_log {
    rotate 4
    notifempty
    missingok
    create 644 root root
    postrotate
     /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
    endscript
}

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rotate 4
create
include /etc/logrotate.d

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rotating pattern: /var/log/apache2/access_log  forced from command line (4 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/apache2/access_log
  log needs rotating
rotating log /var/log/apache2/access_log, log->rotateCount is 4
renaming /var/log/apache2/access_log.4 to /var/log/apache2/access_log.5 (rotatecount 4, logstart 1, i 4),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access_log.3 to /var/log/apache2/access_log.4 (rotatecount 4, logstart 1, i 3),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access_log.2 to /var/log/apache2/access_log.3 (rotatecount 4, logstart 1, i 2),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access_log.1 to /var/log/apache2/access_log.2 (rotatecount 4, logstart 1, i 1),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access_log.0 to /var/log/apache2/access_log.1 (rotatecount 4, logstart 1, i 0),
renaming /var/log/apache2/access_log to /var/log/apache2/access_log.1
creating new log mode = 0644 uid = 0 gid = 0
running postrotate script
running script with arg /var/log/apache2/access_log: "
     /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
"
removing old log /var/log/apache2/access_log.5

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ls -alh /var/log/apache2

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empty log files are not rotated

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logrotate -d file

This will show you what it will do, without actually rotating anything, and this is most valuable while testing complex setups that you don’t want to ‘play’ with the logs to see if your configuration will work as you want it.