On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Bhavna Saini <bhavnasaini10@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > In the previous mail you mentioned that "webserver can't write to /file.txt > from a child process". I couldn't get it properly. Please give some more > details of it. Eric is saying that normally only root can write to the root file system directory '/', and therefore a child process, typically running as apache or www, would not be able to write to it. > > Actually I want to retrieve the IP addresses of incoming requests as soon as > it reaches the server and want to save it in a file. Please let me know > using which source code file of apache web server I can perform it. > > Thanks, > > -Bhavna Why would you want to edit source code to do that? CustomLog logs/ip_request.log "%a %U" http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_log_config.html#customlog This would create a file at $SERVER_ROOT/logs/ip_request.log with contents like so: 192.168.1.1 /index.html 192.168.1.10 /favicon.ico Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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