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authorRich Bowen <rbowen@apache.org>2011-05-26 15:40:46 +0200
committerRich Bowen <rbowen@apache.org>2011-05-26 15:40:46 +0200
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Mention that the error log format is now configurable.
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<code>syslog</code> or <a href="#piped">pipe them to a
program</a>.</p>
- <p>The format of the error log is relatively free-form and
+ <p>The default format of the error log is relatively free-form and
descriptive. But there is certain information that is contained
in most error log entries. For example, here is a typical
message.</p>
@@ -140,14 +140,12 @@
information written to <code>stderr</code> by a CGI script will
be copied directly to the error log.</p>
- <p>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 <a
- href="#accesslog">access log</a>. 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.</p>
+ <p>Using the <directive module="core">ErrorLogFormat</directive>
+ directive, you can customize the format of the error log, and what
+ values are logged. If you have <module>mod_unique_id</module>, you
+ can put a <code>%L</code> token in both the error log and the access
+ log, producing a log entry ID with which you can correlate the entry
+ in the error log with the entry in the access log.</p>
<p>During testing, it is often useful to continuously monitor
the error log for any problems. On Unix systems, you can