Well, I've got a site that receives requests for multiple domains. I've modified the apache log file so that the rewriting of the domain is not done. Therefore if the name of the site is site1.com but you get to it by typing site2.com, your browser will continue to show site2.com in the URL.
I'd like to accurately track how many people come to site1 vs. site2. However this information is not stored in the log files by default. For example: www.site1.com 127.0.0.1 - - [10/May/2002:16:40:47 -0400] "GET /Image2.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 6116 "http://www.site1.com/index.htm"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" Appears regardless of the domain (site1.com or site2.com) that was requested. Combined Log format is by default: "%v %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" However, if I instead use: "%{HOST}i %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" ( notice the first string, %v changed to %{HOST}i ) Then the domain that was actually requested shows up in the log file. Now, I know that the cobalt server is a delicate balance and tweaking things can cause undesirable performance. I often find undesirable performance... well, undesirable. Therefore I want to avoid it. What kind of an impact would you predict this would have? The first thing that comes to my mind is the divvying up of log files that occurs in the evening. I would guess it's for this very reason that the rewrite rules are on by default. My guess is that the utility that cobalt uses will discard requests for pages it can't associate with a site. This isn't too bad if it's the only thing that happens. I'll probably try to preprocess the log files anyway. (any tips on this would be appreciated, namely backing up the log file before any data can be discarded) Can you think of any other negative impacts that may occur? Matthew Nuzum www.followers.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
