From da2aa667865606ade6a47d060ab12c851231933c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Powell Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 03:51:37 +0000 Subject: Monster changes en route to 1.17. Esp. with new documentation. --- CHANGELOG | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'CHANGELOG') diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG index 1d38ca9..8be7dda 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG +++ b/CHANGELOG @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ -$Id: CHANGELOG,v 1.15 2002/09/04 18:46:00 helios Exp $ +$Id: CHANGELOG,v 1.16 2002/11/14 03:51:34 helios Exp $ TODO: * Rethink documentation flow and rewrite? -* Port connection portion to other DBMS? Genericize the module? Start with PostgreSQL. +* Port connection portion to other DBMS? Genericize the module? Start with +PostgreSQL. * check for mandatory conf directives / syntax quit if not * GNU autoconf * merge server config into vh config @@ -14,13 +15,36 @@ TODO: * new format char: IP as bigint? * socket-based middleman daemon with configurable conns? -* go ahead and allow dashes - quote the table name! -* maxlength of request field should be longer + +* Cookies in separate table +* ignore by cookie + + CHANGES: 1.17: +* In make_combined_log.pl, backtick-quoted the table name and added an + order-by clause within the select statement. +* TCP port number for db connection is now configurable using LogSqlTCPPort +* New directive LogSQLForcePreserve sends all log entries directly to the + preserve file and *entirely bypasses* the db. Useful for debugging, but + can be dangerous if you forget it's set! +* Table names are now quoted in all cases with backticks in order to permit + names containing dashes (since many hostnames contain dashes). +* The request_method field is now created as a varchar(10) instead of (6), + after it was pointed out to me that some methods can be longer than 6. +* New directive LogSQLMachineID sets a string identifier for the webserver + machine. This is useful if you have a cluster of many webservers and you + want to differentiate between them in the logs: you can tell which log + entries came from each machine and thereby analyze your loadbalacing + performance. Activate with the TransferLogFormat character 'M'. Much + faster than doing some sort of wacky IP addr lookup via local_addr(). +* Added an alternative way of logging cookies. If you need to associate + multiple cookies with each request, the new way involves using + LogSQLWhichCookies (note the plural) and LogSQLCookieLogTable. + * Renamed the module mod_log_sql to conform to the project goal of database-inspecificity. * Added capability of logging Notes field. This is useful for folks using @@ -35,11 +59,11 @@ CHANGES: be opened.) * Changed default socket file to /tmp/mysql.sock because that's the default on a compiled MySQL. -* Also check for '-' when I'm creating the table when MySQLMassVirtualHosting - is on, and change it to underscore. (Already did this with '.') +* Put back-quotes (`) around table name so that names with dashes are + legal. * Took away the prepend of /tmp to the preserve filename. Now the user can specify whatever local path they want. I figure that - filesystem permissions will prevent people from doing anything + filesystem permissions will prevent people from doing anything really dumb, and people have requested this change. * Better checking in the extract_cookie routine. Before, it could segfault if a person specified "c" but didn't define MySQLWhichCookie. @@ -58,9 +82,10 @@ CHANGES: * Minor: remind user not to set createtables when massvirtual is on. * If Apache started but MySQL was unavailable, the module would do everything it was supposed to (preserve entries, etc.) but not notify - the sysadmin. Added a log message to alert sysadmin if MySQL is + the sysadmin. Added a log message to alert sysadmin if MySQL is unreachable at startup. * New config key 'I' to extract & log unique_id, provided by mod_unique_id. + unique_id is the key that links separate tables (access, notes, etc.) * Migrated to the Artistic License (as used by Perl). * Moved table creation into its own callable function * Robustifying table creation @@ -161,7 +186,7 @@ CHANGES: (e.g. GET, PUT, etc.) * New config capabilities: 'z' 'q' & 'Q' to log SSL_CIPHER, SSL_CIPHER_USEKEYSIZE and SSL_CIPHER_ALGKEYSIZE. These require - openssl and glibc-devel to be installed. (See the online + openssl and glibc-devel to be installed. (See the online directives documentation and FAQ.) * Fixed a bug in make_combined_log.pl that caused it to generate incorrect output on single-digit days. @@ -182,11 +207,13 @@ CHANGES: MySQLTransferLogFormat Instruct the module what information to log to the MySQL transfer log MySQLRefererIgnore - List of referers to ignore, accesses that match will not be logged to MySQL + List of referers to ignore, accesses that match will not be logged to +MySQL MySQLRequestIgnore List of URIs to ignore, accesses that match will not be logged to MySQL MySQLRemhostIgnore - List of remote hosts to ignore, accesses that match will not be logged to MySQL + List of remote hosts to ignore, accesses that match will not be logged +to MySQL MySQLDatabase The name of the MySQL database for logging MySQLWhichCookie @@ -256,7 +283,7 @@ CHANGES: more. * Now include a headerfile (http_log.h) that was missing. Its absence was giving us this warning message: "implicit declaration of - function `ap_log_error_old'." + function `ap_log_error_old'." * For numerics that Apache customarily logs as a "-" we now log a zero instead of a -1. This seems to be more intuitive, e.g. in the "bytes_sent" column. @@ -285,7 +312,7 @@ CHANGES: 1.03: * Changed the check for 'mysql server has gone away' to be case - insensitive, so that it works with MySQL 3.21 + insensitive, so that it works with MySQL 3.21 * Changed the behavior so that a link isn't established until it's necessary (e.g., if SQL logging is used for one virtual IP, a link won't be opened until there's an access to that IP). -- cgit