Logfile formatting

Igor A. Ippolitov iippolitov at nginx.com
Wed Jul 11 13:56:47 UTC 2018


Hello, Scott.

I think, you can try $request_length.
Here is a convenient link to help you with your task: 
http://nginx.org/en/docs/varindex.html
Most of times you can find a proper variable there.

On 11.07.2018 16:53, Callum Scott wrote:
> I'm currently looking at swapping out some of our Apache web servers 
> for Nginx to act as a reverse proxy.
>
> One of my issues is that I need, at least in the short term, for the 
> log format to remain the same.
>
> I have two issues that are cropping up.
>
> The first is that with my current configuration I am getting the 
> following error if I try to start nginx:
>
> nginx: [emerg] unknown "bytes_received" variable
>
> I am using the latest version avialble in the nginx repo:
>
> # nginx -V
> nginx version: nginx/1.14.0
> built by gcc 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18) (GCC)
> built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013
> TLS SNI support enabled
> configure arguments: --prefix=/etc/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx 
> --modules-path=/usr/lib64/nginx/modules 
> --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf 
> --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log 
> --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log 
> --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock 
> --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_temp 
> --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp 
> --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp 
> --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/uwsgi_temp 
> --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/scgi_temp --user=nginx 
> --group=nginx --with-compat --with-file-aio --with-threads 
> --with-http_addition_module --with-http_auth_request_module 
> --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module 
> --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module 
> --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_random_index_module 
> --with-http_realip_module --with-http_secure_link_module 
> --with-http_slice_module --with-http_ssl_module 
> --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_sub_module 
> --with-http_v2_module --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --with-stream 
> --with-stream_realip_module --with-stream_ssl_module 
> --with-stream_ssl_preread_module --with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall 
> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector 
> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC' 
> --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie'
>
> Secondaly i am unable to find an equivelent for the:
>
> %f, %R or %l apache logs
>
> This is the log file I am trying to replicate:
> LogFormat 
> "%v,%V,%h,%l,%u,%t,\"%m\",\"%U\",\"%q\",\"%H\",\"%{UNIQUE_ID}e\",%>s,\"%{Referer}i\",\"%{User-Agent}i\",\"%{SSL_PROTOCOL}x\",\"%{SSL_CIPHER}x\",%p,%D,%I,%O,%B,\"%R\",\"%f\"" 
> vhostcombined
>
> and what I have so far:
>
>     log_format  proxylog 
> '$server_name,$hostname,$remote_addr,-,$remote_user,[$time_local],'
> '"$request_method","$request_uri","$query_string",'
> '"$server_protocol","$request_id","$status","$http_referer,"'
> '"$http_user_agent","$ssl_protocol","$ssl_cipher",$server_port,'
> '$request_time,$bytes_received,$bytes_sent,"proxy-server"';
>
> Any pointers for the above issues would be gratefully received.
> -- 
> Callum
>
>
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