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Week 46 - Apache Tips (2 June 2003)

by Adrian Mayo - Senior Editor for Mac OS X Unix

Friday - The Apache Log Files

Apache writes logging information to:

/private/var/log/httpd/error_log

and:

/private/var/log/httpd/access_log

Examine the error log if you experience problems in setting up the server. Examine the access log to see who is viewing your site.

You can change the amount of logging information written to these files. For example, to add the referrer (the site which linked to your site) and the user agent (the browser) to the log file, do the following.

Edit the apache configuration file:

% sudo pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

Search for:

CustomLog "/private/var/log/httpd/access_log" common

and replace with:

CustomLog "/private/var/log/httpd/access_log" combined

Discuss this trick in the Learning Center forum


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