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Linux System Administration
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Linux System Administration

by Tom Adelstein, Bill Lubanovic
March 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
11h 12m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 6: Administering Apache
If you have DNS records that point www1.centralsoft.org and www2.centralsoft.org
to your server, you can aim your browser at http://www1.centralsoft.org/index.html
and http://www2.centralsoft.org/index.html and see the contents of the test index.html
files that you just made.
Logfiles
Apache writes ASCII logfiles of two types: access (requests that come to the server)
and error (errors that occur during requests). You control how much is written to
these files, depending on what you want to know about visitors to your site, how
much disk space you have (logs get big), and what log analysis tools you want to
apply.
A typical access message (broken onto several lines to fit the page) is:
192.168.0.1 - - [22/Sep/2006:15:04:05 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1"
200 580 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7"
A typical error message is:
[Fri Sep 29 10:13:11 2006] [error]
[client www.centralsoft.org]
File does not exist: /var/www/index.html
The default logs are /var/log/apache2/access.log and /var/log/apache2/error.log.
Log Splitting and Rotation
The default Apache setup includes a daily cron job that rotates the access and error
logs. It does the rotation as follows:
1. Renames access.log to access.log.1 and error.log to error.log.1
2. Increments the number suffixes of the older rotated logs (e.g., access.log.1 is
incremented ...
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