[Info-vax] Apache log rotation

[Neil Rieck]

On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 3:57:37 AM UTC-4, Paul Sture wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:43:56 -0700, Neil Rieck wrote:
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> > On Sunday, August 12, 2012 6:47:25 AM UTC-4, Paul Sture wrote:
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> >> 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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> > Thanks, I know about log file filtering but think it is better to
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> > provide files like "favicon.ico" so browsers stop requesting them (think
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> > "baby birds"). Once I did this (and a couple of other things) the host
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> > system shifted from chaotic into an even grove. (the log file is now 50%
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> > smaller because the web-server is just better behaved)
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> I agree it's better to serve up something like favicon.ico.  I find 
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> filtering very useful when you are using a CMS theme that has a bunch of 
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> its own icons/images that clutter up the log.
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> Regarding an earlier comment about where browsers look for favicon, I 
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> just clicked on http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/ and though I see your 
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> favicon in the URL bar, it displays as an empty square in both the tab 
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> and the history.  This is in Firefox 14.01 on Linux.
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> I do not know what causes this but see it on a (very) few other sites too.
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> -- 
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> Paul Sture

The site: http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/ is hosted by my ISP, is not running OpenVMS, and does not serve up "favicon.ico" (but it wouldn't be hard to do it from a meta statement which is not the same as having the webserver do it).

This site: http://www.bellics.com/ is running Apache on OpenVMS and does serve up "favicon.com"

NSR