Forum Subject: Empty access.log & error.log

Posted on: 11/05/07 03:36pm
By: scarecrow

After running GL on a limited demo basis for a week or so, all seems well except for logging. Despite a number of users clicking around the site, including some testers making admin-suggested attempts at going where they shouldn't, the error.log and access.log remain empty. CAPTCHA is installed and it's log does show it's events. CAPTCHA has also been used to 'clear' the access and error logs yeilding a 'Mon 05 Nov 2007 07:29:41 CST - Log File Cleared' message in the logs, but nothing more is ever appended to them.
Running the check.php script indicates no problems - 7 tests run, 7 tests passed, no failures. I've also tried tweaking the perms on the logs directory and it's files. 775 and 777 make no difference, the logs seem to remain untouched. What else am I missing here? Thanks!


Re: Empty access.log & error.log

Posted on: 11/05/07 09:28pm
By: Anonymous (ironmax)

Are you trying to see the web server logs? This is the log where everything is recorded for everything that a visitor does on your web site. Depending upon the server setup and what type of program is used IE: Apache or IIS are the most common programs, that is where you will have to look, within those logs. Is that what you wanted to know? Geeklog does not show that type of logging. What I might suggest is to install the GUS plugin. That will record what your users do.

Michael

Re: Empty access.log & error.log

Posted on: 11/05/07 10:29pm
By: scarecrow

Quote by: ironmax

Are you trying to see the web server logs? This is the log where everything is recorded for everything that a visitor does on your web site. Depending upon the server setup and what type of program is used IE: Apache or IIS are the most common programs, that is where you will have to look, within those logs. Is that what you wanted to know? Geeklog does not show that type of logging. What I might suggest is to install the GUS plugin. That will record what your users do.



Thanks for the reply, Michael. I guess mostly I was expecting to see something in the log files since they are there. I get a daily audit report via apache, so the who's and where's are available that way. Just seemed that since GL had a logging facility that some info would show up there. Also, I did try GL User Stat, and it did provide a lot of info, but saw the size of the daily DB backup go from 80k to over 3g after just 4 days of it capturing info. For our purposes that was a little too much bloat, again since the same general info was available from the server, just not as 'pretty'. Thanks again!

Re: Empty access.log & error.log

Posted on: 11/06/07 01:11am
By: Anonymous (ironmax)

Quote by: scarecrow


Thanks for the reply, Michael. I guess mostly I was expecting to see something in the log files since they are there. I get a daily audit report via apache, so the who's and where's are available that way. Just seemed that since GL had a logging facility that some info would show up there. Also, I did try GL User Stat, and it did provide a lot of info, but saw the size of the daily DB backup go from 80k to over 3g after just 4 days of it capturing info. For our purposes that was a little too much bloat, again since the same general info was available from the server, just not as 'pretty'. Thanks again!



Are you referring to GUS? If so, you must have allot of traffic. Even with all the stuff I have on my own site and GUS running. My database is only at around 50 megs. Are you sure that its over 3 gigs? Thats impossible. I have GUS stats going back 2 years within that 50 megs.. There has to be something else causing that, its not GUS. The most you would get before you'd notice it would be around maybe 30 megs of GUS data.

Michael

Re: Empty access.log & error.log

Posted on: 11/06/07 02:02pm
By: scarecrow

Quote by: ironmax

Are you sure that its over 3 gigs? Thats impossible.



OOOPS! Everybody always exaggerates! Smile That should have been 3 MEG. At any rate, with 12 test users hitting at a less than fevered pace, it amounted to a little under a MEG a day increase in size. While that isn't a staggering amount, it's still a bit of a redundancy with the server logs.
If the end user really, really needs those stats I can kluge them a script to harvest the stuff out of the server logs.
Thanks again, and sorry for the confusion!

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