From: Erik Abele
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.
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
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:
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