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Standard Apache Access Logging

Using Apache's basic logging features, you can keep track of who visits your Web sites by logging accesses to the servers hosting them. You can log every aspect of the requests and responses, including the IP address of the client, user, and resource accessed. You need to take three steps to create a request log:

1.	Define what you want to log— your log format.
2.	Define where you want to log it— your log files, a database, an external program.
3.	Define whether or not to log— conditional logging rules.

Deciding What to Log

You can log nearly every aspect associated with the request. You can define how your log entries look by creating a log format. A log format is a string that contains text mixed with log formatting ...