Can you get away with using the apache logs to do this - use
mod_log_config and add save your information in a sub_process_env
variable - and add a %{my_env_var} entry into the logging directive?

James

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Jonathan wrote:

> I need to introduce some new functionality to my webapp app, and I'm
> not quite sure if i can do it in MP.  Hoping someone here can offer a
> suggestion.
>
> essentially, I have a high traffic syndicated image server that is
> currently serving from a vanilla apache instance.
> right now, its not logging anything - but i need to change that.
>
> i not need to log some basic request info ( comparable to what is in
> the access log ) , along with the value of a certain cookie if it
> exists- for later parsing ( faster than tossing into a db )
>
> composing the info i need to log under mp is trivial
>
> i'm a bit uneasy about actually logging to a file though-- it looks
> like under a prefork model ( i need 2+ servers to handle this ), i'd
> need to lock / open / write / close / unlock the log file per request
>
> does anyone know of a facility that will let me just log
> straightforward ?
>
> if not, i can hack this together using a non-apache  server pretty
> quickly.   i'd rather just limit my configuration files though :)
>

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