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Get More Details in Your Web Server Logs on Apache

By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com

The common log format (CLF) does not include details on the referrer or the user-agent (Web browser) that was used to visit your pages. But it's easy to convert the logging format to the combined log format and get this information.
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: 1 minute

Here's How:

  1. Login to your Web server.
  2. Edit the httpd.conf file with a text editor.
  3. Find the line that reads:
    CustomLog logs/access_log common
  4. Put a pound-sign (#) at the beginning of that line to comment it out.
  5. Add a new line below it that reads:
    CustomLog logs/access_log combined
  6. Save the file.
  7. Restart the Web server.

What You Need:

  • Apache Web Server

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