[server-admins] HTTP logs

[DM Smith]

Troy,
I’m seeing that ssl has it’s own access and error logs. That means that if a user comes to www.crosswire.org, the event won’t be in crosswire-access_log. Further, if they come to any other of the virtual hosts via https, it won’t go to the log set up for http, but one of these.

The ssl_access_log for ssl doesn’t have much of the data that crosswire-access_log has. E.g. referrer and user agent.

Requests to http://www.crosswire.org/wiki are getting permanently redirected to https://www.crosswire.org/wiki. The event is logged in crosswire-access_log and ssl_access_log. Then navigation is only within ssl_access_log.

I discovered this as I was trying to discover the user agent string for my Windows 10 Edge browser and came in over https.

I thought I’d see if ftpmirror was being used to access modules over SSL. Yep. And our process to grab module download counts is missing these.

Note, %v can be added to the access log file to give the virtual host. That would allow for a single access log file for all virtual hosts.

I’m wondering if you’d like this to be different? And how?

DM