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

[Josh King]

Made the config change for the site, so your logs should be more verbose
at least.

On 04/19/2010 12:58 PM, Josh King wrote:
> 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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