[server-admins] HTTP logs

[DM Smith]

> On Feb 23, 2016, at 10:48 AM, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.

That should have specified https://www.crosswire.org.

> 
> 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
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