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by **Cecil Whitake** » Wed, 09 Jan 2002 00:28:57

We are using Chili!Soft ASP with Apache and are
using Response.AppendToLog to write
some information to the web server log. This
works ok but the information is written to
the error log file instead of the access log.
Is this the way it should work or can we write
to the access log instead of the error log?

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by **adam** » Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:31:37

> We are using Chili!Soft ASP with Apache and are
> using Response.AppendToLog to write
> some information to the web server log. This
> works ok but the information is written to
> the error log file instead of the access log.
> Is this the way it should work or can we write
> to the access log instead of the error log?

I haven't used the Chili!Soft stuff, but it makes sense to me. The
access_log is in a particular format and is not a general purpose log,
it shouldn't be written to by anything but the apache process to log
requests. Error_log is the default place apache will send stderr from
cgi's (for example) and makes sense as a location to spit out debug
info. You could probably use a seperate log for just your ASP stuff
(but this would require more coding) if you really need to segregate
your messages from the regular error_log.

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