RE: Excessive logging by the webserver

[Mario Goulart <mario@proxy.furg.br>]

Hi

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Charles Hall wrote:
> Oh, I think I see. Well, actually your symptom is related to "glimpse",
> not webglimpse. Webglimpse is merely the front-end to the Glimpse
> database, and these hits are "glimpseindex.php" hits across the
> network. ('wgreindex' calls glimpseindex.)

Oops... My mistake. But I'm glad you get what I meant.

> So as you say the solution would be to suppress hits to the web server
> from a specific host (i.e. the machine running glimpseindex) or run
> glimpseindex on the server machine itself.
> 
> Apache has a feature called "RefererIgnore" which might be what you
> need, but I'm no Apache expert and this particular feature seems to have
> been replaced by newer methods. Look here to see what I found:
> 
>     http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_log_referer.html
> 
> Maybe you can decipher the Apache docs or find an Apache mailing list
> with more expertise. Or maybe there's some solution deep in the Glimpse
> website. Everyone who uses Glimpse like this must have the same
> problem. Or even on another search engine site like 'htDig', they do the
> same kind of indexing via server.

I'll take a look.

Many thanks, Charles.

Regards
Mario