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Th.lauke@arcor.de: login log added

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Kgoetz: adding categories

2018-09-12T00:50:20Z

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Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk: Added indexer and openoffice log files.

2017-09-08T12:40:12Z

Added indexer and openoffice log files.

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk at 12:12, 8 September 2017

2017-09-08T12:12:25Z

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk: Added some log files produced by eprints or associated applications

2017-09-08T10:51:06Z

Added some log files produced by eprints or associated applications

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{{Work in Progress|Only some of the log files produced by EPrints and associated applications have been listed so far.}}

EPrints produces a number of log files, as do the integral components of EPrints such as Apache and MySQL. Below is a list of logs files that may be of interest for debugging EPrints. (Please note that log files may appear in different place for different operating systems):

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Typical Location on Red Hat based Linux
! Typical Location on Debian based Linux
! Purpose
! Uses
|-
! Apache access log
| /var/log/httpd/access_log
| /var/log/apache2/access.log
| Logs all accesses to HTTP URLs hosted by Apache unless an individual access log has been created for a particular "virtualhost".
| Can be searched over to check IP addresses that are making excessive or malicious requests.
|-
! Apache error log
| /var/log/httpd/error_log
| /var/log/apache2/error.log
| Logs all issues that occur with Apache or underlying application (i.e. perl and mod_perl) when attempting to service URL requests.
| Can be used to debug issues with EPrints code base, where a script cannot or behaves normally when run directly from the command line.
|-
! Apache ssl access log
| /var/log/httpd/ssl_access_log
| /var/log/apache2/ssl_access.log
| Logs all accesses to HTTPS URLs hosted by Apache unless an individual access log has been created for a particular "virtualhost".
| Can be searched over to check IP addresses that are making excessive or malicious requests for HTTPS URLs.
|-
! Apache ssl error log
| /var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log
| /var/log/apache2/ssl_error.log
| Logs all issues that occur with Apache or underlying application (i.e. perl and mod_perl) when attempting to service HTTPS URL requests.
| Can be used to debug issues with EPrints code base, where a script cannot or behaves normally when run directly from the command line.
|-
! MySQL log
| /var/log/mysql/mysql.log or /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log
| /var/log/mysql/error.log
| Logs general operational issue about MySQL and any errors that occur with the application but not specific database queries
| Only really useful if MySQL / MariaDB will not start properly.
|}

== Parsing the Apache access log ==

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 | If you have the Coversheets plugin installed it logs information and error messages generated by OpenOffice that runs to generate coversheets to stitch onto the front of uploaded PDF documents
 | This file only really logs issues with OpenOffice general running not specific issues cover-sheeting a particular document.  The EPrints indexer log will more likely contain this information.
 |}
 == Parsing the Apache access log ==

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 | Logs general operational issue about MySQL and any errors that occur with the application but not specific database queries
 | Only really useful if MySQL / MariaDB will not start properly.
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 == Parsing the Apache access log ==