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Access Log and Error Codes
Access Log
The access log can be a valuable tool in the management of your web site.
It can tell you:
- what pages are not functioning properly.
- where your traffic is coming from.
- what pages are visited the most.
- if you are visited by robot spiders.
- if someone bookmarks your site.
- your peak days and hours of traffic.
You can get some of this information through a stat service, but the really interesting stuff you will have to do yourself.
For instance if you see a request for a file named favicon.ico, it means someone bookmarked your site using an Explorer browser.
If you see a request for robot.txt or robots.tx it may mean that you were visited by a search engine spider.
If you see a lot of 304 status codes it means that users are bookmarking and revisiting your site.
If you have a most wanted response by your users, you can study the path that each user took to reach that response.
For example if your mwr is for a user to download a file, you would study the path each took before downloading and look for a pattern.
This could help you to enhance the content of the pages that were accessed and eliminate the unused.
Error Codes
The Apache server will report errors and status by a numerical code in the access log.
The most common are:
- 200 - OK
- 204 - No Response
- 206 - Incomplete Transaction
- 301 - Moved Permanently
- 302 - Found
- 303 - See Other
- 304 - Revisit to Cached Page
- 307 - Temporary Redirect
- 400 - Bad Request
- 401 - Unauthorized request
- 403 - Forbidden
- 404 - Not Found
- 405 - Not Allowed
- 408 - Request timed out
- 500 - Internal server error
- 503 - Service unavailable
- 504 - Gateway timed out
Take immediate action when you see the codes marked in red appearing in your access log on your internet web space..