- Introduction to Logging in Apache
- Default Apache Log Files
- Creating Log Formats
- Creating a Custom Log File
- Redirecting Logs to an External Program
- Logging Requests Conditionally
- Monitoring Who Is Linking to Your Website
- Monitoring Apache with mod_status
- Monitoring Apache with SNMP
- Analyzing Your Logs with Open-source Tools
- Monitoring Your Logs in Real Time
- Logging Requests to a Database
- Rotating and Archiving Logs
- Controlling IP Address Resolution
- Processing Logged IP Addresses
- Restarting Apache Automatically If It Fails
- Merging and Splitting Log Files
- Keeping Separate Logs for Each Virtual Host
- Common Log Entries
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Logging Requests Conditionally
SetEnvIf Request_URI "(\.gif|\.jpg)$" image CustomLog logs/access_log common env=!image SetEnvIf Remote_Addr 192\.168\.200\.5 specialma- chine CustomLog logs/special_access_log common env=spe- cialmachine
You can decide whether or not to log a request based on the presence of an environment variable. This variable can be previously set based on a number of parameters, such as the client's IP address or the presence of a certain header in the request. As shown in this example, the CustomLog directive can accept an environment variable as a third argument. If the environment variable is present, the entry will be logged; otherwise, it will not. If the environment variable is negated by prefixing it with an "!", the entry will be logged if the variable is not present. The example shows you how to avoid logging images in GIF and JPEG format and how to log requests from a particular IP address to a separate log file. See the next section for another example.