[MeIsProgrammer] » Apache http://just-thor.com all play and no work makes me a dull boy Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:28:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Logging for different requested URI in Apache HTTP Server http://just-thor.com/2009/09/01/logging-for-different-requested-uri-in-apache-http-server/ http://just-thor.com/2009/09/01/logging-for-different-requested-uri-in-apache-http-server/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:19:57 +0000 Thor http://just-thor.com/?p=40 Sometimes,we might want to log differently for different requested URI in Apache http server.

Activate custom logging in your Apache http server

First,write a line of custom log format and name it as CustomLogFormat

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" CustomLogFormat

Then add another line to activate the logging.
CustomLog /tmp/logForAll.log CustomLogFormat

Restart the webserver and you shall see the every visits to your server are logged in the log file.

But wait,what if I want to separate the log files when user visits login.php(or whatsoever file)?

After the LogFormat line,we add another line to specify the condition.

SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/login\.php$" isLoginPage

Then we modified the previous CustomLog line to exclude logging on login page visit.
CustomLog /tmp/logForAll.log CustomLogFormat env=!isLoginPage

At last,we add another line to log only login page visit.
CustomLog /tmp/logOnlyForLogin.log CustomLogFormat env=isLoginPage

Restart your web server and we are done!

Checkout the Apache log files documentation for more info.

Happy coding. :)

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