[UCIMC-Tech] web logs have wrong IP's, less info

[Josh King]

Hi Barry,

I'm currently trying to find a balance between the standard IP
anonymization procedures of Indymedia in general and the desire of some
sites we host to have analytics. Some of this was in place on zeco, and
I'm still exploring better options on fixx0. I will correct that
configuration change for the verbosity shortly though, I'm currently
recompiling some PHP stuff and so a crash could result if I try and
restart apache before that's all done.

On 04/19/2010 12:41 PM, Barry Isralewitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some more recent info on this...
>   
>    On "wrong IP's":
> All entries in the access log for thebikeproject.org still show up as
> 127.0.0.1.  Thus we can't get web usage stats, tell web crawlers apart
> from humans, do certain tests, etc.
> 
>     On "less info"
> Can an admin make a config file edit for me? I think that fixing my
> "less info in logs" problem just requires an edit of
> line 8 of
> /usr/local/etc/apache22/Includes/thebikeproject.org.conf
> 
> common -> combined
> 
> ...but I don't have edit access.  (And I'm not _positive_ this is the
> currently active config file).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Barry
> 
> On Apr 13, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Barry Isralewitz wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> Thanks again for getting the web sites and server access back up.  
>> A problem, though:
>>
>> The web logs I see from the new server fixx0 seem not to contain the
>> usual info. 
>> See for example, on fixx0:
>> /var/log/www/thebikeproject.org-access.log
>>   -- All IP's appear as 127.0.0.1.  (Web stats software like awstats
>> will tell  me about this single unique visitor who is very enthusiastic!)
>>  -- There's no User-agent  or Referer info. I think thebikeproject.org
>> web logs until now were using the info-heavy "Combined Log Format,
>> which provides these, and the new logs are using the sparser "Common
>> Log Format".  At least going
>> by http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/logs.html .
>>
>>   Me, I'd prefer the more informative Combined Log Format; this gets a
>> little more info back from awstats...plus can help testing.  
>> Possibly related: I'm not positive you guys want me logging in
>> to fixx0 yet in the first place, judging from the whoami result (and
>> prompt) when logged in (my userid is barryi).  Should I be logging in
>> to fixx0 yet, or should I wait a couple of days?
>> ===
>> I have no name!@fixx0:/var/log (((i))) whoami
>> 1020
>> ===
>>
>> Let me know about logs and logging in...
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Barry
>> -- 
>> Barry Isralewitz
>> Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
>> 3043 Beckman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>> Office Phone: (217) 244-1612
>> email: barryi at ks.uiuc.edu <mailto:barryi at ks.uiuc.edu>  
>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~barryi
>>
> 
> -- 
> Barry Isralewitz
> Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
> 3043 Beckman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> Office Phone: (217) 244-1612
> email: barryi at ks.uiuc.edu   http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~barryi
> 
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