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Why is everything logged in /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log

Discussion in 'EasyApache' started by santrix, Nov 28, 2013.

  1. santrix

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    This may be NginX related (specifically CPNginX). I notice that apache access_log contains all requests including those that /usr/local/cpanel/bin/splitlogs sends to the domlogs. The splitlogs documentation seems to suggest that only requests without a vhost header and those against the main host name should wind up in the access_log, but across our whole network I see everything getting dumped in there. The logging to domlogs appears to work correctly.

    The only reason I ask is that if this behaviour is normal then it would be so much more handy if the vhost got logged in access_log too! because currently it doesn't which seems pretty pointless from a log analysis point of view.
     
    #1 santrix, Nov 28, 2013
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    Hello :)

    I believe this is likely the result of using Nginx. The contents of the Apache domain access logs and /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log are not the same on a test machine running Apache.

    Thank you.
     
    #2 cPanelMichael, Dec 4, 2013
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    Thank you Michael, for confirming my suspicions. I simply haven't had the time to setup a machine without nginx to test this, but thank you all the same for taking the time to reply.
     
    #3 santrix, Dec 5, 2013
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    Hmm

    I'm not so sure it's to do with nginx.

    I'm running Apache 2.4, built with EasyApache.

    If I enable piped logging in Apache, everything goes to the access_log. If I disable it, it goes to the domlogs entries for the appropriate virtual host

    If I restart Apache, those entries are then cleared out of the access_log and moved into the relevant domlogs file.

    I'm still testing to find out how long I would have to wait before this batching would happen by itself, without restarting Apache. I've already waited longer than I want to wait - in terms of how current I need the domlogs folder to be.
     
    #4 JamesOakley, Jan 14, 2014
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