Apache Administrator's Handbook

Chapter 24. Logging

IN THIS CHAPTER

• access_log

• Error Logs

• Log File Analysis

• Logging to a Process

• Rotating Your Log Files

• Logging for Multiple Virtual Hosts

	“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, that I may wet my brain and say something clever.”
	--Aristophanies

Apache comes with built-in mechanisms that log activity on your server. In this chapter I'll talk about the standard way that Apache writes log files, and some of the tricks for getting more useful information and statistics out of your server.

If you have done a default installation of Apache two log files will be written when you run your server. These files are called access_log (access.log on Windows) and error_log (error.log on Windows). These files can be found (if you did a default installation) ...