<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" /> <meta name="ROBOTS" content="ALL" /> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" /> <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" /> <meta name="Keywords" content="cherokee web server httpd http" /> <meta name="Description" content="Cherokee is a flexible, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS or OpenSSL), virtual hosts, authentication, cache friendly features, PHP, custom error management, and much more." /> <link href="media/css/cherokee_doc.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" /> </head> <body> <h2 id="_a_href_index_html_index_a_8594_a_href_modules_html_modules_a"><a href="index.html">Index</a> → <a href="modules.html">Modules</a></h2> <div class="sectionbody"> </div> <h2 id="_modules_loggers">Modules: Loggers</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p>Loggers are a type of Cherokee modules unsurprisingly used to log events. They can be configured on a per virtual server basis through each virtual server’s <tt>Logging</tt> section.</p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>Every <tt>logger</tt> registers information about two types of events, <strong>Accesses</strong> and <strong>Errors</strong>, in a different format depending on the used <tt>logger</tt>.</p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>The information can be registered by any of the following mechanisms:</p></div> <div class="ulist"><ul> <li> <p> File: write to disk. </p> </li> <li> <p> System logger: use the syslog standard. </p> </li> <li> <p> Standard Error: write to stderr. </p> </li> <li> <p> Execute program: send the log entry to the specified program. </p> </li> </ul></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>The format of the output and fields that actually are logged are solely determined by the logger chosen. Cherokee currently supports the following loggers:</p></div> <div class="ulist"><ul> <li> <p> <a href="modules_loggers_combined.html">Combined</a>: Apache compatible. <strong>Recommended</strong>. </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="modules_loggers_custom.html">Custom</a>: Customizable format. </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="modules_loggers_ncsa.html">NCSA</a>: NCSA style. </p> </li> </ul></div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> </div> </div> </body> </html>