[plug] Making a PHP application's Apache logs meaningful

Mark O'Shea mark at musicalstoat.co.uk
Tue Aug 30 16:03:30 WST 2005


Hi Matthew,

On Tue, August 30, 2005 3:34 pm, Matthew Lambie said:
> 'Afternoon all,
> Each content page has a title, so page 21 might be "Magical Lifesaving
> Product Extreme". When they look at their AWStats all they see is a hit
> to index.php, and there's no reference to "c=21" (which is meaningless
> anyways).

No problem, use a custom log format and include %q for the query string
after the request (so for the usual format insead of having a part that
says something like \"%r\" have \"%r%q\").  This means that at least you
are getting a reference to the page called, even if it is in code.

-- 
Mark O'Shea




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