Commit 80d19967 authored by Richard Bowen's avatar Richard Bowen
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Mention of logrotate as an alternative to HostnameLookups


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@@ -123,6 +123,15 @@ But even still, if you just need DNS names
in some CGIs you could consider doing the
<CODE>gethostbyname</CODE> call in the specific CGIs that need it.

<p>Similarly, if you need to have hostname information in your server
logs in order to generate reports of this information, you can
postprocess your log file with <a href="../programs/logresolve.html"
>logresolve</a>, so that these lookups can be done without making the
client wait. It is recommended that you do this postprocessing, and any
other statistical analysis of the log file, somewhere other than your
production web server machine, in order that this activity does not
adversely affect server performance.</p>

<H4>FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch</H4>
<P>Wherever in your URL-space you do not have an
<CODE>Options FollowSymLinks</CODE>, or you do have an