Comments on How To Tell Apache To Not Log Certain Requests In Its Access Log

Hi and thanks,

 this saved me a lot of unneccessary log file space ( 5 gb a day ).

 keep up the good work!

great, thanks a lot. very elegant & shows deep understanding of those piles of heaps of options!

> This document comes without warranty of any kind!

Ah, good ole BSD licensed, eh?

No worries ... I didn't need a warranty, just these instructions, and my years of previous experience with sysadmin work.

Worked for me with BSD!

Nice post. Keep sharing such this kinds of post here and aware us from it. Keep it up.

I tried following your instructions but it's not working. Can you help? I need to know which conf file to place these items in, and if I"m using the right criteria as well. I posted a question here, thanks.

 http://serverfault.com/questions/626741/how-to-tell-apache-to-not-log-certain-requests-in-its-access-log

Well let me post exactly what I did:

I am trying to set a SetEnvIf variable in apache2 and exclude it in CustomLog in order to stop my logs from filling up. I want to match a regex and also specific IPs.

I wasn't sure where to put the SetEnvIf statement, so I put them in apache2.conf and also /sites-available/default.

Here is an example of what I want to filter in access.log:

    x.x.x.x - - [06/Sep/2014:15:02:35 -0500] "HEAD /dir/dir2/file1/file2.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 224 "-" "-"

    127.0.0.1 - - [06/Sep/2014:15:02:30 -0500] "GET /foo1/foo2.php? HTTP/1.0" 200 28956 "-" "Wget/1.12 (linux-gnu)"

So in apache2.conf and /sites-available/default, i put this:

    SetEnvIf Request_URI "HEAD /dir/" dontlog
    SetEnvIf Request_Addr "127\.0\.0\.1" dontlog
    SetEnvIf Request_Addr "::1" dontlog

And added env=!dontlog to the existing /default/CustomLog entry:

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined env=!dontlog

I then executed apachectl graceful .

Nothing is changing.

Use SetEnvIf Remote_Addr "127\.0\.0\.1" dontlog instead.

User_Agent does not exist ;-) 

Please correct it to User-Agent

Thanks, it works like a charm. 

 Thank you for telling me so many things. I think that I have to study more with so much information. Read SetEnvIf directive.Regards

Takahiko Nakazawa

I am using awstats. I found out that it is based on "access_log".The problem is that I write in .htaccess as follows.RewriteEngine ONRewriteCond% {HTTPS} offRewriteRule ^ (. *) $ Https: //% {HTTP_HOST}% {REQUEST_URI} [R, L]For this reason code 302 appears in large quantities. Ask the visitor to access the home page for a certain period of time at https: //, then delete the following RewriteEngine On and use / var / log / httpd / access_log.Thank you very much.

Is it possible to use more than one attribute?   Maybe something like:[code]

SetEnvIf Remote_Addr "127\.0\.0\.1" Request_URI "^/whm-server-status\/?$" dontlog_serverstatus

[/code]So any request to whm-server-status is logged, unless the remote address is 127.0.0.1, then if it's 127.0.0.1 that's trying to access whm-server-status, it's not logged?Thanks!

QUERY_STRING example:CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined env=!dontlogRewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} "^.*(username|password)=.*$"RewriteRule .* -  [E=dontlog:true]

Awesome article. This is one of the best article with all possible solutions with examples. Keep up the good work.

Hi, thank you very much.

I had to change User_Agent (from your post) to User-Agent (from Apache docs)

Is this a typo?

Thank you again