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Michal Karzynski
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Michał Karzyński, with a scientific research background in the areas of molecular biology and bioinformatics, has been running Unix-like operating systems since 2002. He works as a web application developer, programming in dynamic languages such as JavaScript, Python, Perl, and PHP. He specializes in designing programming interfaces between servers and client applications based on the HTTP protocol. He has been using Webmin for over five years to assist in setting up and managing servers. He is currently employed as a project manager at the Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland. His blog can be found at http://michal.karzynski.pl.
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Logging incoming requests and errors


A server hosting a website on the Internet gets a lot of attention. It's visited by users, scanned by indexing search bots, and looked over by would-be attackers trying to see if it could be broken into. Your web server should record information about all this traffic, and you should look through it regularly to ascertain that everything is working correctly.

By default, Apache keeps two types of logfiles: an access log, which contains information about each incoming request and an error log with information about encountered problems. You can configure Apache to keep a single pair of logfiles, but in most cases it's more useful to keep a separate access and error log for each virtual server.

Getting ready

Apache's logging facility is highly customizable, and you can set your server to output log entries in many different ways. A few of the formats have become recognized as standard, and currently, the recommended logging standard is nicknamed combined log...

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Michal Karzynski

Michał Karzyński, with a scientific research background in the areas of molecular biology and bioinformatics, has been running Unix-like operating systems since 2002. He works as a web application developer, programming in dynamic languages such as JavaScript, Python, Perl, and PHP. He specializes in designing programming interfaces between servers and client applications based on the HTTP protocol. He has been using Webmin for over five years to assist in setting up and managing servers. He is currently employed as a project manager at the Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland. His blog can be found at http://michal.karzynski.pl.
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