[thelist] Apache web logs

Zac - 

Got.net just has lazy admins if they're not willing to do this. As for
requiring an 'entire reconfiguration of the system', that is BS and you
should call them on it. Ask them what exactly their reconfiguration of
the system would require. They would have to add one(or two) lines to
your VirtualHost directive in the apache httpd.conf file like so:

CustomLog /home/zac/referer.log referer

restart(in case they dont know, its /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl
restart for that system reconfiguration) the webserver and you're now
logging referers. Its just as easy for logging OS stats.

If they still give you shit, contact me offlist and we'll work it
out(people like this will usually do somethign once someone confronts
them on it and points out just how easy it is to do(no offense towards
you zac :) ))

.djc.

Zachary Mutrux wrote:
> 
> Ahoy The List:
> 
> Is it very difficult to turn on and off different tokens for the Web logs
> that Apache churns out?
> 
> My hosting company doesn't log browser, OS, or referrer data for our
> site--and this is the only information I want! I've asked them to start
> logging these data, and after a couple of months of reminders, they've
> finally told me that changing the way Apache logs would require an entire
> reconfiguration of the system, which would be just too difficult.
> 
> They've suggested that I wait until our site is moved from the Linux box
> it's presently on to a new NT server. My only option appears to be patient
> waiting, since I don't make the decisions regarding where our site is
> hosted, but I am curious about whether Got.net is telling the truth about
> how hard it is to change the way Apache logs.