Linux / Apache -- Notes on Logrotate, Apache logs not rotating

I've got a problem with logrotate, a program on Ubuntu Linux, which is supposed to rotate the many log files.

Normally, log files are just text files that are appended with more lines of text whenever a specific event occurs. Rotation of log files means that the text files are periodically maintained and archived so that they don't get too big.

For Apache web server, there are a couple of log files (located in the /log/ folder just above the public directory) --
access.log
error.log

When these files are rotated, they will be archived under new files that look like this:

access.log.1
access.log.2
error.log.1
error.log.2

The log rotation is usually part of 3 maintenance setups located in the following directories;
/etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.weekly
/etc/cron.monthly

These will be run from a cronjob with commands that look like this:
17 *    * * *   cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6    * * *   ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ) | mail -s "cron daily" me@myemail.comnet
47 6    * * 7   ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly ) | mail -s "cron weekly" duy@me@myemail.comnet
52 6    1 * *   ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly ) | mail -s "cron monthly" me@myemail.comnet

Another cronjob can be added to directly run logs separately from the daily crons (but the logrotate command might need to be specified with its path:
20 17 23 * * /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

A status file shows the date when each log was last updated:
/var/lib/logrotate/status

There are configuration files located inside the directory:
/etc/logrotate.d

One of these is the /apache file. It will contain commands that may look like this:

/path/to/my/log/*.log {

        weekly

        missingok

        rotate 52

        compress

        delaycompress

        notifempty

        create 640 root adm

        # CHANGE THIS SETTING IF PERMISSIONS ARE NOT CORRECT

        # su myusername mygroupname

        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

}