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Question about logging to APACHE

Post by Max Adam » Sat, 13 Apr 2002 06:26:51



I have apache serving a domain for example www.xyz.com and a virtual host
running on vhost1.xyz.com.  I currently have them both logging to the same
file called custom.logs.

However there is a file called index.html on both the domain and on the
virtual host.  This causes problems because on the name is logged
(index.html) and I have no way of knowing if this file is the domain root or
the virtual host.

I would like them both to log to the same log file because we are using
accesswatch to analyse the log file.

I have two alternatives
1) use two log files one for the domain and a second for the virtual host

or

2) somehow store index.html to show that it is an access from the virtual
host not the domain

Which do you recommend, i.e. which is best practice?
How can I log index.html to show that it is coming from the virtual domain?

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Thanks lots
Max

 
 
 
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