Continuous Apache access log

[flane]

hi JeanmMarc,
with the latest versions of metern I noticed these lines in the apache access.log file:

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[07/May/2018:11:39:16 +0200] "GET /metern/programs/programlastdays.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2180 "http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/metern/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36"
[07/May/2018:11:39:16 +0200] "GET /metern/programs/programmeter.php HTTP/1.1" 200 44425 "http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/metern/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36"
[07/May/2018:11:39:16 +0200] "GET /metern/programs/programindicator.php HTTP/1.1" 200 360 "http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/metern/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36"
[07/May/2018:11:39:16 +0200] "GET /metern/images/favicon-32x32.png HTTP/1.1" 304 182 "http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/metern/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36"
[07/May/2018:11:39:16 +0200] "GET /metern/images/favicon-16x16.png HTTP/1.1" 304 182 "http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/metern/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36"
[07/May/2018:11:39:16 +0200] "GET /metern/programs/programlive.php HTTP/1.1" 200 448 "http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/metern/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36"
[07/May/2018:11:39:17 +0200] "GET /metern/programs/programindicator.php HTTP/1.1" 200 360 "http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/metern/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36"
[07/May/2018:11:39:17 +0200] "GET /metern/programs/programlive.php HTTP/1.1" 200 448 "http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/metern/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36"
[07/May/2018:11:39:18 +0200] "GET /metern/programs/programindicator.php HTTP/1.1" 200 360 "http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/metern/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36"
[07/May/2018:11:39:18 +0200] "GET /metern/programs/programlive.php HTTP/1.1" 200 448 "http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/metern/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36"
[07/May/2018:11:39:19 +0200] "GET /metern/programs/programindicator.php HTTP/1.1" 200 360 "http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/metern/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36"
[07/May/2018:11:39:20 +0200] "GET /metern/programs/programlive.php HTTP/1.1" 200 448 "http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/metern/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36"
[07/May/2018:11:39:20 +0200] "GET /metern/programs/programindicator.php HTTP/1.1" 200 360 "http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/metern/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36"

there are a lot of them and they tend to saturate the log.

Is it possible to avoid these logs?

[jeanmarc]

Hi Flane,
There is continous GET requests for the live things, i can't remove that. In Chrome press F12 then network, you'll see how much request it does..
Did you change anything in apache log ?

[flane]

I have this section in apache2.conf

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# The following directives define some format nicknames for use with
# a CustomLog directive.
#
# These deviate from the Common Log Format definitions in that they use %O
# (the actual bytes sent including headers) instead of %b (the size of the
# requested file), because the latter makes it impossible to detect partial
# requests.
#
# Note that the use of %{X-Forwarded-For}i instead of %h is not recommended.
# Use mod_remoteip instead.
#
LogFormat "%v:%p %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" vhost_combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent

Here is also a guide: Apache Module mod_log_config
The line that generates the log of GET requests is

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LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined

but I do not understand how I can modify Logformat to exclude GET requests

if I comment this line, a log is generated with:

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combined
combined
combined
....

a "combined" line for each GET request

[jeanmarc]

Well, i don't know much about Apache, i use nginx. I simply disable access_log, i believe only error are useful.
I think you can comment CustomLog in httpd.conf to do so.

[flane]

OK thanks jeanmarc.
I have disabled only access.log as shown on this page:
HOW TO EASILY DISABLE LOG IN APACHE