TransferLog Directive

Purpose

The logfile format is as follows. Each line consists of:

host rfc931 authuser [DD/Mon/YYYY:hh:mm:ss] "request" ddd bbbb "opt_referer" "opt_agent"

• host: Either the DNS name or the IP number of the remote client
• rfc931: Any information returned by identd for this person, - otherwise.
• authuser: If user sent a userid for authentication, the user name, - otherwise.
• DD: Day
• Mon: Month (calendar name)
• YYYY: Year
• hh: hour (24-hour format, the machine's timezone)
• mm: minutes
• ss: seconds
• request: The first line of the HTTP request as sent by the client.
• ddd: the status code returned by the server, - if not available.
• bbbb: the total number of bytes sent, *not including the HTTP/1.0 header*, - if not available
• opt_referer: the referer field if given and if LogOptions is Combined
• opt_agent: the user agent field if given and if LogOptions is Combined

Syntax

file is the name of the file to which transfers will be logged. It is either a full pathname, or a partial pathname relative to ServerRoot.

Virtual Host

Default

TransferLog logs/access_log

Compile Option: DEFAULT_XFERLOG

Examples

This logs transfers to the file logs/downloads in the ServerRoot directory.

TransferLog /tmp/httpd-accesses

This logs transfers to the file /tmp/httpd-accesses.

TransferLog /dev/null

This effectively turns off transfer logging.

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