[Info-vax] Apache log rotation

[Paul Sture]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 07:12:23 -0700, Neil Rieck wrote:

> But we have noticed that tabbed browsers expect favicon.ico to be
> available (probably in the browser's cache) so it can be used "to
> precede the web page title" on each tab.

For those of us who use tabbed browsers and the bookmarks toolbar the 
icons give a very useful visual hint.

> Anyway, these two changes:
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/
openvms_notes_apache.html#tweaks2012
> have cut the size of my log files by roughly 50% per day which I am
> assuming is consuming fewer system and network resources.

You can also exclude logging of various files:

http://www.webmasterview.com/2009/11/apache-log-cruft/

SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/wordpress/" cruft
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/robots\.txt$" cruft
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/favicon\.ico$" cruft
CustomLog /logs/example.com/access.log combined env=!cruft

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Paul Sture