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 :) >