[SOLVED] How to avoid recording some error log ?

Aeolustw · 11-29-2009, 08:12 PM

How to avoid recording some error log ?

The server os is Debian 5.0.x.

As we know , if we want to avoid to record some access log , we can edit the file below:
/etc/apache2/site-available/default

Code:

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SetEnvIf Remote_Addr "66\.249\.67\.49" dontlog
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CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined env=!dontlog
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And the error log line is:

Code:

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

How to avoid recording the error log occured by the trusted IP like google?

p.s.

Quote:

Like these error log that i don't want to record:
[Mon Nov 30 09:41:28 2009] [error] [client 66.249.67.49] File does not exist: /var/www/ipb300a
[Mon Nov 30 09:43:26 2009] [error] [client 66.249.67.49] File does not exist: /var/www/ipb3rc1
[Mon Nov 30 09:45:24 2009] [error] [client 66.249.67.49] File does not exist: /var/www/ipb3rc1
[Mon Nov 30 09:47:22 2009] [error] [client 66.249.67.49] File does not exist: /var/www/ipb3rc1
[Mon Nov 30 09:48:01 2009] [error] [client 66.249.67.49] File does not exist: /var/www/ipb300a
[Mon Nov 30 09:49:20 2009] [error] [client 66.249.67.49] File does not exist: /var/www/ipb3rc1
[Mon Nov 30 09:50:38 2009] [error] [client 66.249.67.49] File does not exist: /var/www/ipb3rc1
[Mon Nov 30 09:51:18 2009] [error] [client 66.249.67.49] File does not exist: /var/www/ipb3rc1

Thanks.

jhwilliams · 11-30-2009, 01:17 PM

Code:

dig -x 66.249.67.49
-- snip --
;; ANSWER SECTION:
49.67.249.66.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN	PTR	crawl-66-249-67-49.googlebot.com.

Well personally, I would take a different approach to this issue. You don't want to suppress things that are in fact errors. Why is Google looking for that nonsense? You could try adding ipb* as entry to a robots.txt file. I use the Google Webmaster Tools interface for my site so that I can set Googlebot straight when it isn't looking for the right stuff. You could use it to explicitly tell Google not to look for that stuff. If you have links to those pages on your site, try removing them. Cheers, J

Aeolustw · 11-30-2009, 08:36 PM

Thanks.

I will try your good suggestion.

Aeolustw · 12-01-2009, 06:51 PM

After adding a line below , it works fine now.

Code:

Disallow: /ipb*

Thanks