Thanks for your help. I do understand now the concept. I am quite surprised
however how much code it actually took. Here is my filter configuration that
is working correctly.
This configuration basically filters out everything I don't want in my
access logs, including a couple of redundant frameset pages that I do not
want to count.
LoggingFilter.java is the filter class that adds a parameter to the request
object of any page it processes. The tomcat accesslogvalve then only logs
requests that do not have the dLog parameter:
LoggingFilter.java:
package com.mg.filters;
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public final class LoggingFilter implements Filter {
private FilterConfig filterConfig = null;
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response,
FilterChain chain)
throws IOException, ServletException {
request.setAttribute(filterConfig.getInitParameter("logParam"),"t");
chain.doFilter(request, response);
}
public void destroy() {
this.filterConfig = null;
}
public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) {
this.filterConfig = filterConfig;
}
}
Tomcat server.xml:
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.FastCommonAccessLogValve"
directory="logs"
prefix="access_log." suffix=".txt" pattern="common"
resolveHosts="false" condition="dLog" />
web.xml:
<!-- The following url patterns will not be written to the access logs -->
<filter>
<filter-name>LoggingFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>com.mg.filters.LoggingFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>logParam</param-name>
<param-value>dLog</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>LoggingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/images/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>ERROR</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>LoggingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/css/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>ERROR</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>LoggingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/js/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>ERROR</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>LoggingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/audio/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>ERROR</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>LoggingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/dwr/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>LoggingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>ERROR</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>LoggingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/index.html</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>ERROR</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>LoggingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/talk.htm</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>ERROR</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>LoggingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/core.htm</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>ERROR</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
Any comments or suggestions on this approach? I am not sure if it is
neccessary to include all of those dispatcher elements, but it seems to me
like it would be necessary to be complete...
--
View this message in context:
http://www.nabble.com/How-to-configure-Access-logs-to-ignore-images-tp23714046p23716977.html
Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
