Hi Li and Pid, Thanks again for your replies.
You are right, I also tried printing request.getRemoteAddr() in a JSP, and it always lists 127.0.0.1 As you have suggested my site could be behind a proxy, but I don't know this for sure. I've asked the host provider if this is the case and waiting for a reply. I also use Javascript based logging but that only logs requests coming from a browser and correctly logs the IP address of the requestor however, it does not log search engine bots I guess because bots disable Javascript or can't work with Javascript. -Regards Rashmi ----- Original Message ---- From: Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 8:39:12 AM Subject: Re: Is it possible to log IP Address of requestor with custom AccessLogValve pattern? Hi Rashmi, if there is problem with retrieving correct remote IP address, log4j will not solve problem ... it seems like this: remote user ---(send request) ---> your proxy (or maybe you use some connector or forwardor) ----> tomcat if 127.0.0.1, seems your connector or forwardoer is located in the same host as your tomcat sharing same IP address or hostname if not 127.0.0.1, seems the request comes from proxy On 10/30/06, Pid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you have a local proxy between the tomcat instance and the requestor? > > > > Rashmi Rubdi wrote: > > Li, > > > > Thanks for the reply. > > > > As indicated in your illustration, in your case the remote IP address > (IP of the client browser) is correctly displaying. > > > > But in my case, for some reason even when my website is accessed > remotely it always shows local IP Address (the website's IP address) and not > the remote IP address. > > > > In other words > > %a %A %h is translating *always* to > > 127.0.0.1 > > 68.120.115.43 > > 127.0.0.1 > > > > Where 68.120.115.43 is the IP address of the website host and not the > client (remote host). > > > > The website is hosted on a Tomcat 5.5 which is configured as a virtual > host. I wonder if the virtual host setting might be the cause for not > logging the actual remote IP address. > > > > If I can't get Access Log Valve to log the remote IP address then I > might have to try it with Log4J with Commons Logging to log the remote IP > address I guess. > > > > -Regards > > Rashmi > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> > > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 3:25:38 AM > > Subject: Re: Is it possible to log IP Address of requestor with custom > AccessLogValve pattern? > > > > > > what you defined is correct ... a simpler way is using default setting > > <Valve > > className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" > > directory="logs" > > prefix="your-site-access-log-" > > suffix=".log" > > pattern="common" > > resolveHosts="false"/> > > > > the result should be > > (if you are testing from same host) > > 127.0.0.1 - - [18/Oct/2006:18:54:48 +0800] "GET /site/ HTTP/1.1" 200 306 > > 127.0.0.1 - - [18/Oct/2006:18:54:48 +0800] "GET /site/Welcome.do > HTTP/1.1" > > 200 1775 > > (if your user testing from remote host) > > 202.110.6.23 - - [18/Oct/2006:19:03:44 +0800] "GET /site/Welcome.do > > HTTP/1.1" 200 8893 > > ... > > > > On 10/30/06, Rashmi Rubdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> My site is hosted on Tomcat 5.5 and I'm trying to log the IP Address of > >> search engine bots that crawl the site. > >> > >> After reading the following documentation here, which is written very > >> nicely btw > >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/valve.html > >> > >> > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/catalina/docs/api/org/apache/catalina/valves/AccessLogValve.html > >> > >> I configured the pattern attribute of AccessLogValve as follows: > >> > >> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" > >> directory="logs" > >> pattern="%a %A %h %H %u %t "%r" %s %b "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i"" > >> prefix="localhost_access_log." resolveHosts="false" suffix=".txt" /> > >> > >> The following is a sample of what gets logged with the above > configuration > >> in server.xml . > >> > >> 127.0.0.1 68.120.115.43 127.0.0.1 HTTP/1.1 - [29/Oct/2006:23:50:13 > -0800] > >> "GET /web/_stylesheet/table.css HTTP/1.1" 304 - " > >> http://www.website.com/c/a_page.jsp";;; "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows > NT > >> 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7" > >> > >> The documentation says that %a is Remote IP Address, however 127.0.0.1is > >> being logged instead of the IP Address of the requestor. > >> > >> Is this correct? > >> > >> IMO %a should be the IP Address of the agent that's making the request > - ( > >> i.e. the IP Address of a browser or a bot etc). > >> > >> Please let me know if there's a way to log IP Address of the agent > that's > >> making the request. > >> > >> Any help is appreciated. > >> > >> -Thank you > >> Rashmi > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- When we invent time, we invent death. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
