Logging
Apache provides logging for just about any web access information you might be interested in. Logging can help with the following:
• System resource management, by tracking usage
• Intrusion detection, by documenting bad HTTP requests
• Diagnostics, by recording errors in processing requests
Two standard log files are generated when you run your Apache server: access_log and error_log. They are found under the /var/log/apache2 directory. (Others include the SSL logs ssl_access_log, ssl_error_log and ssl_request_log.) All logs except for the error_log (by default, this is just the access_log) are generated in a format specified by the CustomLog and LogFormat directives. These directives appear in your apache2.conf file.
A new log format ...
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