how to customise Apache2 logs
I'm trying to follow the subversion/svn example for putting svn-related
(over http) activities into a new log and decyphering the actions, but
nothing is appearing in the new log.
>From http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.serverconfig.httpd.html, it
says
mod_dav_svn, however, can come to your aid. By activating an
“operational logging” feature, you can ask mod_dav_svn to create a
separate log file describing what sort of high-level operations your
clients are performing.
To do this, you need to make use of Apache's CustomLog directive (which
is explained in more detail in Apache's own documentation). Be sure to
invoke this directive outside of your Subversion Location block:
<Location /svn>
DAV svn
…
</Location>
CustomLog logs/svn_logfile "%t %u %{SVN-ACTION}e" env=SVN-ACTION
In this example, we're asking Apache to create a special logfile
svn_logfile in the standard Apache logs directory. The %t and %u
variables are replaced by the time and username of the request,
respectively. The really important part are the two instances of
SVN-ACTION. When Apache sees that variable, it substitutes the value of
the SVN-ACTION environment variable, which is automatically set by
mod_dav_svn whenever it detects a high-level client action.
I've added what I think is a suitable CustomLog (I've tried both
to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and/or
to /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf):
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/subversion.log "%t %u %{SVN-ACTION}e"
env=SVN-ACTION
but although the file is created nothing is being added to it, and I'm
still seeing copies of the Apache/svn cmds in apache2/access.log:
michael@ratty:/usr/local/SUBVERSION$ tail /var/log/apache2/access.log
veri.phy.umist.ac.uk - atmos_svn [11/Jan/2008:17:34:01 +0000]
"PROPFIND /svn/atmos_modelling/OpenMP_2 HTTP/1.1" 207 463 "-" "SVN/1.4.4
(r25188) neon/0.25.5"
{etc}
Can anybody point out what I've overlooked?
thanks, Michael
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