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Adding access_log reporting to Urchin
If you run Urchin locally on your machine, you might have noticed that access_logs are turned off by default, while error_log's are turned on by default. Turning access logs on is easy but there is a little trick.
First off, I have my Urchin installed in /usr/local/. The conf files for the Urchin webserver are in /usr/local/urchin/var/urchinwebd.conf. But that is not the file that you want to modify. You will need to make the changes in /usr/local/urchin/var/urchinwebd.conf.template. Otherwise, any change you make will be over written when you restart Urchin with /etc/init.d/urchin restart.
To turn access logs on, simply change this:
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# Uncomment the following lines to turn on access logging
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# LogFormat "%h %v %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\""
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# TransferLog var/access.log
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ErrorLog var/error.log
to this:
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# Uncomment the following lines to turn on access logging
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LogFormat "%h %v %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\""
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TransferLog var/access.log
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ErrorLog var/error.log
Then simply restart Urchin. There is no need to create the access_log on your own, as Urchin will automatically create the file. Though you might be smart to add log rotating for this file if you have a lot of people accessing Urchin on your server.
