Domino Web server logging to text files

When setting up Domino® Web server logging to text files, you must determine the Access file format. The content of the Access log varies depending on which log file format you choose: Extended Common or Common. The most commonly used Access log format is Extended Common, which logs all Web server information into a single text file.

Optionally, you can choose Common for the Access log file format; however, the Common format is an older log file format and is available primarily for legacy information. If you choose the Common format for your Access file, it contains a subset of the server request information, with the requesting agent and referer information stored in separate Agent and Referer log files. It is difficult to match the entries in these different log files because a referer is not always sent with every request, so the number of referer entries may not match the number of requests.

When you log to a text file, the following information is recorded.

Table 1. Log information

Text file

Records

Access

The Access log records different information depending on whether the format in the Server document is set to Common or Extended Common.

In Common format, the Access log records the following information:

  1. Client DNS name or IP address if DNS name is not available
  2. Host header from request, or server IP address if Host header is not available
  3. Remote user if available
  4. Request time stamp
  5. Http request line
  6. Http response status code

In Extended Common format, the Access log records the following information:

  1. Client DNS name or IP address if DNS name is not available
  2. Host header from request, or server IP address if Host header is not available
  3. Remote user if available
  4. Request time stamp
  5. Http request line
  6. Http response status code
  7. Request content length if available, otherwise shows "-"
  8. Referring URL if available, otherwise shows "-"
  9. User agent if available, otherwise shows "-"
  10. Amount of time, in milliseconds, to process the request
  11. Value of the cookie header
  12. Translated URL, (the full path of the actual server resource, if available)

Agent
  • User agent if available, otherwise shows "-"

Referer
  • URL the user visited to gain access to a page on this site