Logging the Request [Access Log]

By: జగదేశ్ on 12:42 PM

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If we want to log all the requests [time, what was accessed, the Response status e.t.c], we need to add a valve to the context.xml file like

<Valve

    className="org.apache.catalina.valves.FastCommonAccessLogValve"

    directory="${catalina.home}/logs/"

    prefix="access_log"

    fileDateFormat="yyyy-MM-dd.HH"

    suffix=".log"

    pattern="%t %H cookie:%{SESSIONID}c request:%{SESSIONID}r  %m %U %s %q %r"/>

This allows the tomcat to create a log file under the logs directory in tomcat home and create a file with the prefix access_log and add the requests that came .

A excerpt from the access_log in my box ,

[24/Jun/2010:01:22:33 -0500] HTTP/1.1 cookie:- request:-  GET /manager/html 200  GET /manager/html HTTP/1.1

[24/Jun/2010:01:22:36 -0500] HTTP/1.1 cookie:- request:-  GET /SimpleSample/ 200  GET /SimpleSample/ HTTP/1.1

[24/Jun/2010:01:22:36 -0500] HTTP/1.1 cookie:- request:-  POST /SimpleSample/SimpleSampleServlet 200  POST /SimpleSample/SimpleSampleServlet HTTP/1.1

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