Hi Li,
I'm sorry I should have re-referenced the AccessLogValve documentation earlier.
I can still get this to work with the AccessLogValve custom pattern itself by
adding the request header in this
pattern element %{xxx}i , where xxx is the request header.
The following also worked, as shown below:
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
directory="logs"
pattern="%{x-forwarded-for}i; %H %u %t "%r" %s %b
"%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i""
prefix="localhost_access_log." resolveHosts="false" suffix=".txt" />
May be this kind of setup will slow down the performance of the site, but I'll
probably disable the logging after getting an initial sample of search engine
bots.
Thanks for your suggestions and help, I will keep those in mind. I still need
to learn Log4J and logging in general.
But for now, this setup is sufficient.
-Regards
Rashmi
----- Original Message ----
From: Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 9:20:50 PM
Subject: Re: Is it possible to log IP Address of requestor with custom
AccessLogValve pattern?
Hi Rashmi,
You can creater your own log handler and pack it as jar and put it under
tomcat lib dir, modify the loggin.properties file to have your handler work.
Also, you can create your own request processor or intercepter to retrieve
source ip from header and pass to logger.
Regards
On 10/31/06, Rashmi Rubdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think my web site is behind a proxy, I was told that
> request.getHeader("x-forwarded-for") should work instead of
> request.getRemoteAddr() , and it does work when I try it.
>
> The site correctly shows the remote client's IP Address.
>
> I guess there's no pattern element in Access Log Valve for capturing the
> x-forwarded-for.
>
> I might have to log it with Log4J.
>
> Sincerely
> -Rashmi
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> From: Rashmi Rubdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:03:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Is it possible to log IP Address of requestor with custom
> AccessLogValve pattern?
>
>
> Hi Li and Pid,
>
> Thanks again for your replies.
>
> You are right, I also tried printing request.getRemoteAddr() in a JSP, and
> it always lists 127.0.0.1
>
> As you have suggested my site could be behind a proxy, but I don't know
> this for sure. I've asked the host provider if this is the case and waiting
> for a reply.
>
> I also use Javascript based logging but that only logs requests coming
> from a browser and correctly logs the IP address of the requestor however,
> it does not log
> search engine bots I guess because bots disable Javascript or can't work
> with Javascript.
>
> -Regards
> Rashmi
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 8:39:12 AM
> Subject: Re: Is it possible to log IP Address of requestor with custom
> AccessLogValve pattern?
>
>
> Hi Rashmi,
>
> if there is problem with retrieving correct remote IP address, log4j will
> not solve problem ...
>
> it seems like this:
>
> remote user ---(send request) ---> your proxy (or maybe you use some
> connector or forwardor) ----> tomcat
>
> if 127.0.0.1, seems your connector or forwardoer is located in the same
> host
> as your tomcat sharing same IP address or hostname
>
> if not 127.0.0.1, seems the request comes from proxy
>
>
>
> On 10/30/06, Pid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> 127.0.0.1is
> > >> 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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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