Do you have a local proxy between the tomcat instance and the requestor?
Rashmi Rubdi wrote: > Li, > > Thanks for the reply. > > As indicated in your illustration, in your case the remote IP address (IP of > the client browser) is correctly displaying. > > But in my case, for some reason even when my website is accessed remotely it > always shows local IP Address (the website's IP address) and not the remote > IP address. > > In other words > %a %A %h is translating *always* to > 127.0.0.1 > 68.120.115.43 > 127.0.0.1 > > Where 68.120.115.43 is the IP address of the website host and not the client > (remote host). > > The website is hosted on a Tomcat 5.5 which is configured as a virtual host. > I wonder if the virtual host setting might be the cause for not logging the > actual remote IP address. > > If I can't get Access Log Valve to log the remote IP address then I might > have to try it with Log4J with Commons Logging to log the remote IP address I > guess. > > -Regards > Rashmi > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 3:25:38 AM > Subject: Re: Is it possible to log IP Address of requestor with custom > AccessLogValve pattern? > > > what you defined is correct ... a simpler way is using default setting > <Valve > className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" > directory="logs" > prefix="your-site-access-log-" > suffix=".log" > pattern="common" > resolveHosts="false"/> > > the result should be > (if you are testing from same host) > 127.0.0.1 - - [18/Oct/2006:18:54:48 +0800] "GET /site/ HTTP/1.1" 200 306 > 127.0.0.1 - - [18/Oct/2006:18:54:48 +0800] "GET /site/Welcome.do HTTP/1.1" > 200 1775 > (if your user testing from remote host) > 202.110.6.23 - - [18/Oct/2006:19:03:44 +0800] "GET /site/Welcome.do > HTTP/1.1" 200 8893 > ... > > On 10/30/06, Rashmi Rubdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> My site is hosted on Tomcat 5.5 and I'm trying to log the IP Address of >> search engine bots that crawl the site. >> >> After reading the following documentation here, which is written very >> nicely btw >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/valve.html >> >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/catalina/docs/api/org/apache/catalina/valves/AccessLogValve.html >> >> I configured the pattern attribute of AccessLogValve as follows: >> >> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" >> directory="logs" >> pattern="%a %A %h %H %u %t "%r" %s %b "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i"" >> prefix="localhost_access_log." resolveHosts="false" suffix=".txt" /> >> >> The following is a sample of what gets logged with the above configuration >> in server.xml . >> >> 127.0.0.1 68.120.115.43 127.0.0.1 HTTP/1.1 - [29/Oct/2006:23:50:13 -0800] >> "GET /web/_stylesheet/table.css HTTP/1.1" 304 - " >> http://www.website.com/c/a_page.jsp";; "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT >> 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7" >> >> The documentation says that %a is Remote IP Address, however 127.0.0.1 is >> being logged instead of the IP Address of the requestor. >> >> Is this correct? >> >> IMO %a should be the IP Address of the agent that's making the request - ( >> i.e. the IP Address of a browser or a bot etc). >> >> Please let me know if there's a way to log IP Address of the agent that's >> making the request. >> >> Any help is appreciated. >> >> -Thank you >> Rashmi >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
