logging forum user names/id

[mike]

i don't believe you can, unless nginx can log cookie values (i don't
recall if it can) and the username/ids are stored plaintext (which any
decent forum package shouldn't) in a cookie you can access

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:48 PM, KT Walrus <kevin at my.walr.us> wrote:
> I'm hosting a forum.  I'd like to log the forum user name/id into nginx
> access_log.
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> What is the best way to do this?
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> Should I have forum php code set a header with this user name/id and somehow
> get this into an nginx variable I can use in the log_format statement?
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> Or, some other "better" approach?
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> Also, is there some way to print out all nginx conf variables that are
> visible (like phpinfo() does for php)?  I'm having a hard time with the
> English wiki documentation as names of variables seem to be in multiple
> places (some of which I can't find).
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> Kevin
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