capabilities. This document describes how to configure its
logging capabilities, and how to understand what the logs
contain.</p>
- </div><div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#security">Security Warning</a></li><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#errorlog">Error Log</a></li><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#accesslog">Access Log</a></li><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#rotation">Rotation Logs</a></li><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#piped">Piped Logs</a></li><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#virtualhost">Virtual Hosts</a></li><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#other">Other Log Files</a></li></ul></div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a name="security" id="security">Security Warning</a></h2>
+ </div><div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#security">Security Warning</a></li><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#errorlog">Error Log</a></li><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#accesslog">Access Log</a></li><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#rotation">Log Rotation</a></li><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#piped">Piped Logs</a></li><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#virtualhost">Virtual Hosts</a></li><li><img alt="" src="./images/down.gif" /> <a href="#other">Other Log Files</a></li></ul></div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a name="security" id="security">Security Warning</a></h2>
<p>Anyone who can write to the directory where Apache is
<code>TransferLog</code> directive. The <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/mod_log_config.html#customlog">CustomLog</a></code> directive now subsumes
the functionality of all the older directives.</p>
- <p>The format of the access log is highly configurable. The
- format is specified using a <code class="directive"><a href="./mod/mod_log_config.html#customlog">CustomLog</a></code> that
- looks much like a C-style printf(1) format string. Some
- examples are presented in the next sections. For a complete
- list of the possible contents of the format string, see the <a href="mod/mod_log_config.html#formats">mod_log_config
- documentation</a>.</p>
+ <p>The format of the access log is highly configurable. The format
+ is specified using a format string that looks much like a C-style
+ printf(1) format string. Some examples are presented in the next
+ sections. For a complete list of the possible contents of the
+ format string, see the <code class="module"><a href="./mod/mod_log_config.html">mod_log_config</a></code> <a href="mod/mod_log_config.html#formats">format strings</a>.</p>
<h3><a name="common" id="common">Common Log Format</a></h3>
easier to simply post-process the log files to remove requests
that you do not want to consider.</p>
- </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a name="rotation" id="rotation">Rotation Logs</a></h2>
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="./images/up.gif" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a name="rotation" id="rotation">Log Rotation</a></h2>
<p>On even a moderately busy server, the quantity of
module="mod_log_config">CustomLog</directive> directive now subsumes
the functionality of all the older directives.</p>
- <p>The format of the access log is highly configurable. The
- format is specified using a <directive
- module="mod_log_config">CustomLog</directive> that
- looks much like a C-style printf(1) format string. Some
- examples are presented in the next sections. For a complete
- list of the possible contents of the format string, see the <a
- href="mod/mod_log_config.html#formats">mod_log_config
- documentation</a>.</p>
+ <p>The format of the access log is highly configurable. The format
+ is specified using a format string that looks much like a C-style
+ printf(1) format string. Some examples are presented in the next
+ sections. For a complete list of the possible contents of the
+ format string, see the <module>mod_log_config</module> <a
+ href="mod/mod_log_config.html#formats">format strings</a>.</p>
<section id="common">
<title>Common Log Format</title>
</section>
<section id="rotation">
- <title>Rotation Logs</title>
+ <title>Log Rotation</title>
<p>On even a moderately busy server, the quantity of
information stored in the log files is very large. The access