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<H1 ALIGN="CENTER">Module mod_log_config</h1>
and is compiled in by default in Apache 1.2. mod_log_config replaces
mod_log_common in Apache 1.2. Prior to version 1.2, mod_log_config was
an optional module. It provides for logging of the requests made to
the server, using the Common Log Format or a user-specified format.
<h2>Summary</h2>
Three directives are provided by this module: <code>TransferLog</code>
to create a log file, <code>LogFormat</code> to set a custom format,
and <code>CustomLog</code> to define a log file and format in one go.
The <code>TransferLog</code> and <code>CustomLog</code> directives can
be used multiple times in each server to cause each request to be
logged to multiple files.
<P>
<h3>Compatibility notes</h3>
<ul>
<li>This module is based on mod_log_config distributed with
previous Apache releases, now updated to handle multiple logs.
There is now no need to re-configure Apache to use configuration log
formats.
<li>The module also implements the <code>CookieLog</code> directive,
used to log user-tracking information created by <a
href="mod_usertrack.html">mod_usertrack</a>. The use of
<code>CookieLog</code> is deprecated, and a <code>CustomLog</code>
should be defined to log user-tracking information instead.
</ul>
<h2>Log File Formats</h2>
Unless told otherwise with <tt>LogFormat</tt> the log files created by
<tt>TransferLog</tt> will be in standard "Common Log Format"
(CLF). The contents of each line in a CLF file are explained
below. Alternatively, the log file can be customized (and if multiple
log files are used, each can have a different format). Custom formats
are set with <code>LogFormat</code> and <code>CustomLog</code>.
<h3>Common Log Format</h3>
The Common Log Format (CLF) file contains a separate line for each
request. A line is composed of several tokens separated by spaces:
<blockquote>
host ident authuser date request status bytes
</blockquote>
If a token does not have a value then it is represented by a hyphen (-).
The meanings and values of these tokens are as follows:
<dl>
<dt>host
<dd>The fully-qualified domain name of the client, or its IP number if the
name is not available.
<dt>ident
client machine runs identd, then this is the identity information reported
by the client.
<dt>authuser
<dd>If the request was for an password protected document, then this is
the userid used in the request.
<dt>date
<dd>The date and time of the request, in the following format:
day = 2*digit<br>
month = 3*letter<br>
year = 4*digit<br>
hour = 2*digit<br>
minute = 2*digit<br>
second = 2*digit<br>
zone = (`+' | `-') 4*digit</code></blockquote></dl>
<dt>request
<dd>The request line from the client, enclosed in double quotes
(<code>"</code>).
<dt>status
<dd>The three digit status code returned to the client.
<dt>bytes
<dd>The number of bytes in the object returned to the client, not including
any headers.
</dl>
<h3><A NAME="formats">Custom Log Formats</A></h3>
The format argument to the <code>LogFormat</code> and
<code>CustomLog</code> is a string. This string is logged to the log
file for each request. It can contain literal characters copied into
the log files, and `%' directives which are replaced in the log file
by the values as follows:
<PRE>
%...b: Bytes sent, excluding HTTP headers.
%...f: Filename
%...{FOOBAR}e: The contents of the environment variable FOOBAR
%...h: Remote host
%...{Foobar}i: The contents of Foobar: header line(s) in the request
sent to the server.
%...l: Remote logname (from identd, if supplied)
%...{Foobar}n: The contents of note "Foobar" from another module.
%...{Foobar}o: The contents of Foobar: header line(s) in the reply.
%...p: The port the request was served to
%...P: The process ID of the child that serviced the request.
%...r: First line of request
%...s: Status. For requests that got internally redirected, this
is status of the *original* request --- %...>s for the last.
%...t: Time, in common log format time format
%...{format}t: The time, in the form given by format, which should
be in strftime(3) format.
%...T: The time taken to serve the request, in seconds.
%...u: Remote user (from auth; may be bogus if return status (%s) is 401)
%...U: The URL path requested.
</PRE>
indicate conditions for inclusion of the item (which will cause it
to be replaced with `-' if the condition is not met). Note that
there is no escaping performed on the strings from %r, %...i and
%...o; some with long memories may remember that I thought this was
a bad idea, once upon a time, and I'm still not comfortable with
it, but it is difficult to see how to `do the right thing' with all
of `%..i', unless we URL-escape everything and break with CLF.
<P>
The forms of condition are a list of HTTP status codes, which may
or may not be preceded by `!'. Thus, `%400,501{User-agent}i' logs
User-agent: on 400 errors and 501 errors (Bad Request, Not
Implemented) only; `%!200,304,302{Referer}i' logs Referer: on all
requests which did <b>not</b> return some sort of normal status.
<P>
Note that the common log format is defined by the string <code>"%h %l
%u %t \"%r\" %s %b"</code>, which can be used as the basis for
extending for format if desired (e.g. to add extra fields at the end).
NCSA's extended/combined log format would be <code>"%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\""</code>.
<h2>Using Multiple Log Files</h2>
The <code>TransferLog</code> and <code>CustomLog</code> directives can
be given more than once to log requests to multiple log files. Each
request will be logged to all the log files defined by either of these
directives.
<h3>Use with Virtual Hosts</h3>
If a <VirtualHost> section does not contain any
<tt>TransferLog</tt> or <tt>CustomLog</tt> directives, the
logs defined for the main server will be used. If it does
contain one or more of these directives, requests serviced by
this virtual host will only be logged in the log files defined
within its definition, not in any of the main server's log files.
See the examples below.
<p>
<h2>Security Considerations</h2>
document for details on why your security could be compromised if the
directory where logfiles are stored is writable by anyone other than
the user that starts the server.
<p>
<h2>Directives</h2>
<ul>
<li><A HREF="#cookielog">CookieLog</A>
<LI><A HREF="#customlog">CustomLog</A>
<li><A HREF="#logformat">LogFormat</A>
<li><A HREF="#transferlog">TransferLog</A>
</ul>
<hr>
<h2><A name="cookielog">CookieLog</A></h2>
<!--%plaintext <?INDEX {\tt CookieLog} directive> -->
<strong>Syntax:</strong> CookieLog <em>filename</em><br>
<Strong>Context:</strong> server config, virtual host<br>
<strong>Module:</strong> mod_cookies<br>
<strong>Compatibility:</strong> Only available in Apache 1.2 and above<p>
The CookieLog directive sets the filename for logging of cookies.
The filename is relative to the <A
HREF="core.html#serverroot">ServerRoot</A>. This directive is included
only for compatibility with <a
href="mod_cookies.html">mod_cookies</a>, and is deprecated.
<p>
<HR>
<H2><A NAME="customlog">CustomLog</A></H2>
<STRONG>Syntax:</STRONG> CustomLog <em>file-pipe</em>
<em>format-or-nickname</em><BR>
<STRONG>Context:</STRONG> server config, virtual host<BR>
<STRONG>Status:</STRONG> Base<BR>
<STRONG>Compatibility: </STRONG> Nickname only available in Apache 1.3
or later
<BR>
<STRONG>Module:</STRONG> mod_log_config
<P>
The first argument is the filename to which log records should be
written. This is used
exactly like the argument to
<A
HREF="#transferlog"
><SAMP>TransferLog</SAMP></A>;
that is, it is either a full path or relative to the current
server root.
</P>
<P>
The format argument specifies a format for each line of the log file.
The options available for the format are exactly the same as for
the argument of the <tt>LogFormat</tt> directive. If the format
includes any spaces (which it will do in almost all cases) it
should be enclosed in double quotes.
</P>
<P>
Instead of an actual format string, you can use a format nickname defined with
the
<A
HREF="#logformat"
><SAMP>LogFormat</SAMP></A>
directive.
</P>
<HR>
<h2><A name="logformat">LogFormat</A></h2>
<!--%plaintext <?INDEX {\tt LogFormat} directive> -->
<strong>Syntax:</strong> LogFormat <em>format</em> [<EM>nickname</EM>]
<br>
<strong>Default:</strong> <code>LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\"
%s %b"</code><br>
<Strong>Context:</strong> server config, virtual host<br>
<strong>Status:</strong> Base<br>
<STRONG>Compatibility: </STRONG> Nickname only available in Apache 1.3
or later
<BR>
<strong>Module:</strong> mod_log_config
<P>
This sets the format of the default logfile named by the
<A
HREF="#transferlog"
><SAMP>TransferLog</SAMP></A>
directive . See the section on
<A HREF="#formats">Custom Log Formats</A> for details on the format
arguments.
</P>
<P>
If you include a nickname for the format on the directive line, you can
use it in other <SAMP>LogFormat</SAMP> and
<A
HREF="#customlog"
><SAMP>CustomLog</SAMP></A>
directives rather than repeating the entire format string.
</P>
<P>
A
<SAMP>LogFormat</SAMP> directive which defines a nickname <STRONG>does
nothing else</STRONG> -- that is, it <EM>only</EM> defines the nickname,
it doesn't actually apply the format and make it the default.
</P>
<hr>
<h2><A name="transferlog">TransferLog</A></h2>
<!--%plaintext <?INDEX {\tt TransferLog} directive> -->
<strong>Syntax:</strong> TransferLog <em>file-pipe</em><br>
<strong>Default:</strong> none<br>
<Strong>Context:</strong> server config, virtual host<br>
<strong>Status:</strong> Base<br>
<strong>Module:</strong> mod_log_config<p>
The TransferLog directive adds a log file in the format defined by the
most recent
<A
HREF="#logformat"
><SAMP>LogFormat</SAMP></A>
directive, or Common Log Format if no other default format has been
specified.
<em>File-pipe</em> is one
of
<dl><dt>A filename
<dt> `|' followed by a command
<dd>A program to receive the agent log information on its standard input.
Note the a new program will not be started for a VirtualHost if it inherits
the TransferLog from the main server.
</dl>
<strong>Security:</strong> if a program is used, then it will be
run under the user who started httpd. This will be root if the server
was started by root; be sure that the program is secure.<p>
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