Commit b08835b3 authored by Richard Bowen's avatar Richard Bowen
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Mention that the error log format is now configurable.


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    <code>syslog</code> or <a href="#piped">pipe them to a
    program</a>.</p>

    <p>The format of the error log is relatively free-form and
    <p>The default format of the error log is relatively free-form and
    descriptive. But there is certain information that is contained
    in most error log entries. For example, here is a typical
    message.</p>
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    information written to <code>stderr</code> by a CGI script will
    be copied directly to the error log.</p>

    <p>It is not possible to customize the error log by adding or
    removing information. However, error log entries dealing with
    particular requests have corresponding entries in the <a
    href="#accesslog">access log</a>. For example, the above example
    entry corresponds to an access log entry with status code 403.
    Since it is possible to customize the access log, you can
    obtain more information about error conditions using that log
    file.</p>
    <p>Using the <directive module="core">ErrorLogFormat</directive>
    directive, you can customize the format of the error log, and what
    values are logged. If you have <module>mod_unique_id</module>, you
    can put a <code>%L</code> token in both the error log and the access
    log, producing a log entry ID with which you can correlate the entry
    in the error log with the entry in the access log.</p>

    <p>During testing, it is often useful to continuously monitor
    the error log for any problems. On Unix systems, you can