TransferLog directive

Purpose

The TransferLog directive tells httpd where to record client accesses.

The logfile format is as follows. Each line consists of:

host rfc931 authuser [DD/Mon/YYYY:hh:mm:ss] "request" ddd bbbb

host: Either the DNS name or the IP number of the remote client
rfc931: Any information returned by identd for this person, - otherwise.
authuser: If user sent a userid for authentication, the user name, - otherwise.
DD: Day
Mon: Month (calendar name)
YYYY: Year
hh: hour (24-hour format, the machine's timezone)
mm: minutes
ss: seconds
request: The first line of the HTTP request as sent by the client.
ddd: the status code returned by the server, - if not available.
bbbb: the total number of bytes sent, *not including the HTTP/1.0 header*, - if not available

You can determine the name of the file accessed through request.

TransferLog file

file is the name of the file to which transfers will be logged. It is either a full pathname, or a partial pathname relative to ServerRoot.

Only one TransferLog directive is allowed in the configuration file.

If you do not specify a TransferLog, httpd assumes:

TransferLog logs/access_log

TransferLog logs/downloads

This logs transfers to the file logs/downloads in the ServerRoot directory.

TransferLog /tmp/httpd-accesses

This logs transfers to the file /tmp/httpd-accesses.

TransferLog /dev/null

This effectively turns off transfer logging.

NCSA httpd Development Team

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