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Personal Access Log in Common Log Format

Your personal access log in the Extended Common Log Format includes only Web accesses to your site in the standard format. You also have the option of having your accesses stored in a WebCom log file format log (which is much more readable, and includes FTP accesses as well), or in both formats.

To activate logging in common log format, a directory named "clogs" must be created in your home directory. Your personal access log in common log format will be stored in a file named "log", under this directory. If you delete this file, it is automatically recreated the next time an access to your site is recorded, unless you delete the "clogs" directory as well. (NOTE: There can be up to a one hour delay between the time you create your clogs directory and the time the system begins logging in that directory for you; the system only checks for new directories once every hour).

IMPORTANT NOTE: Our system does not automatically delete/remove/overwrite the clogs file. If you configure your account to generate a clog file, the log will accumulate indefinitely. Be sure to download and delete this file periodically, as an unchecked log file can take up a lot of your diskspace quota. If your clog file becomes too large for you to be able to download, you can compress this file when downloading it.


Here's what your personal access log in common log format looks like:

pglab39.pg.cc.md.us - - [13/Mar/1995:09:09:03 -0800] "GET /webcom/gstbk.html HTTP/1.0" 200 35727 "http://webcom.com/~webcom/cgi-bin/cust_sites" "Mozilla/3.0 (Win95; I)"
pglab39.pg.cc.md.us - - [13/Mar/1995:09:17:18 -0800] "GET /webcom/gstbk.html HTTP/1.0" 304 0 "/gstbk.html" "Mozilla/3.0 (Win95; I)"
xroads.wr.usgs.gov - - [13/Mar/1995:09:17:53 -0800] "GET /webcom/order.html HTTP/1.0" 200 2344 "" "Mozilla/3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC)"
148.241.22.29 - - [13/Mar/1995:09:21:09 -0800] "GET /webcom/order.html HTTP/1.0" 200 2344 "http://www.lycos.com/" "Mozilla/3.0Gold (Win95; U)"
nameless.house.gov - - [13/Mar/1995:10:00:30 -0800] "GET /webcom/graphics/hp.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 2690 "/order.html" "Mozilla/3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC)"
splitter.amnh.org - - [13/Mar/1995:10:01:10 -0800] "GET /webcom/order.html HTTP/1.0" 200 2344 "http://webcom.com/~webcom/" "Mozilla/3.0 (Win95; I)"


The format of the common log file:

remotehost rfc931 authuser [date] "request" status bytes "referrer" "user_agent"

remotehost
Remote hostname (or IP number if DNS hostname is not available).
rfc931
The remote login name of the user (this feature is not available on the WebCom server for technical reasons).
authuser
The username as which the user has authenticated himself. This is only available when using Access Authorization (password protected WWW pages).
[date]
Date and time of the request.
"request"
The request line exactly as it came from the client (i.e., the file name, and the method used to retrieve it [GET in 99% of the cases]).
status
The HTTP status code returned to the client. Whether or not the file was successfully retrieved, and if not, what error message was returned.
bytes
The content-length of the document transferred.
"referrer"
The previous URL visited by the accessor
"user_agent"
Information about the browser used to access
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