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jwegner
Asked: 2013-07-13 07:09:52 +0800 CST

Global Apache Log with Many Virtual Hosts

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I have a server that runs a bunch of VirtualHosts for each of our client sites (~ 30 sites). I've got the VHosts configured so that each site has its own log, which is stored in <public>/../log/access.log, and similarly for an error log.

I would like to create a server-wide log of some basic information from every request - specifically time, status code, and virtual host. Preferably, I would like to store this information in one file, rather than parsing each of the separate access logs.

Is there a way to tell Apache to follow one CustomLog in addition to all the ones in the actual VHost files?

apache-2.2

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  1. You can pipe the logs from CustomLog. You can then use tee, for instance, to send them to different destinations (possibly processing them beforehand). There's an example at fnal.gov:

    ErrorLog  "|/usr/bin/tee -a /var/log/www/error.log  | /usr/bin/logger -thttpd -plocal6.err"
CustomLog "|/usr/bin/tee -a /var/log/www/access.log | /usr/bin/logger -thttpd -plocal6.notice" extended_ncsa
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