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authordgaudet <dgaudet@unknown>1998-03-03 08:38:26 +0000
committerdgaudet <dgaudet@unknown>1998-03-03 08:38:26 +0000
commit8e95d00cddc3f2022166f9da263a3edcf6b55da5 (patch)
treee8a304d0f479e403ed330d27718fd4f8c543c5a3
parent568485f102bb01c7ab135e382f5b32b1b07535ec (diff)
downloadhttpd-8e95d00cddc3f2022166f9da263a3edcf6b55da5.tar.gz
Explain %p and %v a little more.
PR: 1908 git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@80372 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_log_config.html
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ by the values as follows:
%...l: Remote logname (from identd, if supplied)
%...{Foobar}n: The contents of note "Foobar" from another module.
%...{Foobar}o: The contents of Foobar: header line(s) in the reply.
-%...p: Port of the server serving the request (see UseCanonicalName)
+%...p: The canonical Port of the server serving the request
%...P: The process ID of the child that serviced the request.
%...r: First line of request
%...s: Status. For requests that got internally redirected, this
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ by the values as follows:
%...T: The time taken to serve the request, in seconds.
%...u: Remote user (from auth; may be bogus if return status (%s) is 401)
%...U: The URL path requested.
-%...v: The name of the server (i.e. which virtual host?)
+%...v: The canonical ServerName of the server serving the request.
</PRE>
The `...' can be nothing at all (e.g. <CODE>"%h %u %r %s %b"</CODE>), or it can
@@ -154,6 +154,17 @@ Note that the common log format is defined by the string <CODE>"%h %l
extending for format if desired (e.g. to add extra fields at the end).
NCSA's extended/combined log format would be <CODE>"%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\""</CODE>.
+<p>
+
+Note that the canonical <a href="core.html#servername">ServerName</a>
+and <a href="core.html#port">Port</a> of the server serving the request
+are used for <code>%v</code> and <code>%p</code> respectively. This
+happens regardless of the
+<a href="core.html#usecanonicalname">UseCanonicalName</a> setting because
+otherwise log analysis programs would have to duplicate the entire
+vhost matching algorithm in order to decide what host really served
+the request.
+
<H2>Using Multiple Log Files</H2>
The <CODE>TransferLog</CODE> and <CODE>CustomLog</CODE> directives can