[Mapserver-users] How to log requests on remote wms-servers

[Frieso ter Haseborg]

Hi,

no, basic logging of the requests is not what I want - then of course the server logs would do.

What I'm searching for is way, "to log the requests the UMN wms-client sends to a remote wms-server". So no server-side logging, but client-side logging for debugging purposes. 

I just want to log the url the mapserver-client generates and sends to a remote wms-server I've no access to. In this case MS_ERRORFILE as mentioned by Daniel did it, since the client received a HTTP request error. But a general mechanism to log the generated url would still be interesting.

TIA,
 
Frieso ter Haseborg
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Haigh [mailto:andrew at andrewhaigh.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 8:02 PM
> To: Daniel Morissette
> Cc: Frieso ter Haseborg; moeller at basis5.de;
> mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] How to log requests on remote 
> wms-servers
> 
> 
> Everyone,
> 
> If all you want to do is log requests, can't you just use your 
> webserver logs?
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> On 22 Jun 2004, at 13:38, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 
> > Frieso ter Haseborg wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> LOG "c:\Programme\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\tmp\ms.log"
> >> or
> >> LOG ms.log
> >> gives no difference. So far I never had any problems using '/' 
> >> instead of '\'.
> >> Are there any other requirements to be met for ms to get a 
> debug-log?
> >
> > The LOG directive applies only to the mapserv CGI via the 
> traditional 
> > CGI interface. It has no effect with the WMS or WFS 
> interfaces or with 
> > MapScript.
> >
> > BTW, there are two other ways to generate log output in MapServer:
> > - Setting the MS_ERRORFILE environment variable will log all error 
> > messages to the specified file
> > - Compiling with --enable-debug (i.e. adding the 
> -DENABLE_STDERR_DEBUG 
> > -DNEED_NONBLOCKING_STDERR compile flags) will generate lots 
> of debug 
> > output to stderr (i.e. to the Apache error_log).
> >
> > We've been talking about unifying all this, you'll find 
> more details 
> > in bug 709:
> > http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=709
> >
> >
> > Now, if all you need is to log requests then none of the 
> above will do 
> > what you want. In this case you could simply create a 
> wrapper script 
> > that logs the request and passes control to the mapserv.exe.
> >
> > Daniel
> > -- 
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> >  Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
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