Re: CRONOLOG: [help] OSX & Cronolog: Newbie

[Paul Willis <p@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > We ended up creating one 'overall' log for all our virtual hosts. If
> > you want to do this I can give more instructions.
>
> This would be a most helpful HOWTO... would be hugely grateful for any 
> info
> you can provide on it!

In the httpd.conf we created our own custom log format to capture more 
information about virtual hosts...

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" 
%U %T %p %P %v %f %V" ourlogs

which we added to the bottom of the default sets...

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" 
\"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" 
%U %T %p %P %v %f %V" ourlogs

...but you can use any of the default ones if you want.

We then added a line to pipe the output to cronolog...

CustomLog "|/bin/cronolog 
/private/var/log/httpd/archive/%Y%m/%Y-%m-%d.log" ourlogs

Then in httpd_macosxserver.conf we removed all the Apple logging from 
the virtual hosts...

#CustomLog "/private/var/log/httpd/access_log" "%{PC-Remote-Addr}i %l 
%u %t \"%r\" %>s %b"

This does mess with Apple's GUI tools though. If you edit a site using 
the 'Server Settings' tool it will try to put it's own logging lines 
back in and give error messages saying a site couldn't be added/edited 
(even though it does really make the changes).

To get round that we added our own include to httpd.conf

Include /private/etc/httpd/ourhttpd.conf

just above Apple's one

Include /private/etc/httpd/ourhttpd.conf
Include /private/etc/httpd/httpd_macosxserver.conf
Include /private/etc/httpd/mime_macosxserver.types

We now edit ourhttpd.conf by hand and just use the 'Server Settings' 
tool to stop and start Apache.

Cheers

Paul