From: Erik Abele Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:01:30 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Backport of r583991/r584015. X-Git-Tag: 2.0.62~82 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=604753b1adfbfeb13b6ab3dda692d1b759c54682;p=thirdparty%2Fapache%2Fhttpd.git Backport of r583991/r584015. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x@586409 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- diff --git a/docs/manual/logs.xml b/docs/manual/logs.xml index b9c86191d97..6bfaf104d60 100644 --- a/docs/manual/logs.xml +++ b/docs/manual/logs.xml @@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ what went wrong and how to fix it.

The error log is usually written to a file (typically - error_log on unix systems and - error.log on Windows and OS/2). On unix systems it + error_log on Unix systems and + error.log on Windows and OS/2). On Unix systems it is also possible to have the server send errors to syslog or pipe them to a program.

@@ -90,11 +90,11 @@

The first item in the log entry is the date and time of the - message. The second entry lists the severity of the error being + message. The second item lists the severity of the error being reported. The LogLevel directive is used to control the types of errors that are sent to the error log by restricting the severity level. The third - entry gives the IP address of the client that generated the + item gives the IP address of the client that generated the error. Beyond that is the message itself, which in this case indicates that the server has been configured to deny the client access. The server reports the file-system path (as @@ -109,14 +109,14 @@

It is not possible to customize the error log by adding or removing information. However, error log entries dealing with particular requests have corresponding entries in the access log. For instance, the above example + href="#accesslog">access log. For example, the above example entry corresponds to an access log entry with status code 403. Since it is possible to customize the access log, you can obtain more information about error conditions using that log file.

During testing, it is often useful to continuously monitor - the error log for any problems. On unix systems, you can + the error log for any problems. On Unix systems, you can accomplish this using:

@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
The "hyphen" in the output indicates that the requested piece of information is not available. In this case, the information that is not available is the RFC 1413 identity of - the client determined by identd on the client's + the client determined by identd on the clients machine. This information is highly unreliable and should almost never be used except on tightly controlled internal networks. Apache httpd will not even attempt to determine