Today we will learn what is Domlogs? Ever wondered about the huge pile of logs taking up gigabytes or so of space inside the Apache directory? These are domain logs abbreviated as domlogs. Web statistics are stored in these logs which include attributes such as IP address, identity, date/time, request, etc. These statistics are very helpful in filtering the traffic hitting your website. Domlogs can be found under the domlogs directory in the Apache log. The path will be /var/log/apache/domlogs/
Domlogs on your Web Server
Domainlogs are stored in separate files for HTTP and HTTPS traffic separately for each domain.
Domlog for a single request looks like below.
106.77.92.168 – – [10/Oct/2018:13:48:04 +0530] “GET /wp-content/plugins/LayerSlider/static/layerslider/css/layerslider.css?ver=6.5.7 HTTP/1.1” 200 149051 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36”
Reading the domlog without prior knowledge of its content will appear strange to anyone. We will give all parts of domlog request below. For a better experience, we have identified different sections of domlog using numbers from 1 to 8.
- IP Address: Requester’s IP address i.e. 106.77.92.168
- Identity: These two dashes are for two different ways of identifying the requester. The first is untrusted and will always be a – (ie unknown) and the second will be replaced with a username if HTTP authentication is used.
- Date & Time: It includes date and time with the universal time offset i.e. timezone.
- HTTP Status Code: It shows the status of the request. In our case, the request shows up with a 200 code which means “OK” and the request is successful.
- File Size: This field tells the file size in bytes excluding headers.
- Previously Visited Page: This field shows the site that referred the user (the page they were last on). In this case, the blank (-) field indicates that the user entered the URL directly into the address bar.
- Browser Identity: This field shows you the identity details of the browser that is making the request to the website.
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