[Info-vax] Apache log rotation

[Neil Rieck]

On Sunday, August 12, 2012 6:47:25 AM UTC-4, Paul Sture wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 07:12:23 -0700, Neil Rieck wrote:
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> > But we have noticed that tabbed browsers expect favicon.ico to be
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> > available (probably in the browser's cache) so it can be used "to
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> > precede the web page title" on each tab.
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> For those of us who use tabbed browsers and the bookmarks toolbar the 
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> icons give a very useful visual hint.
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> > Anyway, these two changes:
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> > http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/
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> openvms_notes_apache.html#tweaks2012
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> > have cut the size of my log files by roughly 50% per day which I am
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> > assuming is consuming fewer system and network resources.
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> You can also exclude logging of various files:
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> http://www.webmasterview.com/2009/11/apache-log-cruft/
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> SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/wordpress/" cruft
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> SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/robots\.txt$" cruft
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> SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/favicon\.ico$" cruft
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> CustomLog /logs/example.com/access.log combined env=!cruft
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> Paul Sture

Thanks, I know about log file filtering but think it is better to provide files like "favicon.ico" so browsers stop requesting them (think "baby birds"). Once I did this (and a couple of other things) the host system shifted from chaotic into an even grove. (the log file is now 50% smaller because the web-server is just better behaved)


Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/