On Friday 22 September 2006 03:34, James Smith wrote:
> Can you get away with using the apache logs to do this - use
> mod_log_config and add save your information in a sub_process_env
> variable - and add a %{my_env_var} entry into the logging directive?
>
> James
>
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Jonathan wrote:
> > I need to introduce some new functionality to my webapp app, and I'm
> > not quite sure if i can do it in MP. Hoping someone here can offer a
> > suggestion.
> >
> > essentially, I have a high traffic syndicated image server that is
> > currently serving from a vanilla apache instance.
> > right now, its not logging anything - but i need to change that.
> >
> > i not need to log some basic request info ( comparable to what is in
> > the access log ) , along with the value of a certain cookie if it
> > exists- for later parsing ( faster than tossing into a db )
> >
> > composing the info i need to log under mp is trivial
> >
> > i'm a bit uneasy about actually logging to a file though-- it looks
> > like under a prefork model ( i need 2+ servers to handle this ), i'd
> > need to lock / open / write / close / unlock the log file per request
> >
> > does anyone know of a facility that will let me just log
> > straightforward ?
You can create a simple logger under mod_perl that logs to a database directly
using DBI. You would, of course, want to benchmark anything like this, but
it isn't hard to code one.
Sean
