Purpose

The error_log file is a log of errors and status messages that the HTTPd server encounters. It currently logs the following:

The referer_log file is a log where HTTPd records all document referals. It is recorded in the following format:

Where URI is the Universal Resource Identifier for the document that references the server, and Document is the name of the file being refered to.

A Referer Example Log

[02/Oct/1995:13:03:29] http://www.webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery -> /images/icon.gif
[02/Oct/1995:13:03:29] http://www.webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery -> /images/back.gif
[02/Oct/1995:13:03:34] http://www.lysator.liu.se:7500/mud/faq/faq1.html -> /ftp/
[02/Oct/1995:13:04:25] http://rhine.ece.utexas.edu/~shishir/ -> /docs/tutorials/
[02/Oct/1995:13:04:30] http://humnet.humberc.on.ca/ -> /archie.html/

NCSA HTTPd Development Team / httpd@ncsa.uiuc.edu / Last Modified 7-12-95