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Re: Migrating to Verio virtual web hosting: some q's for youse

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From: avm
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:14
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dpk wrote:

>
> The REMOTE_HOST functionality can be enabled with "HostnameLookups
> on", perhaps in your .htaccess file (not 100% on that), or by adding
> some sort of <Limit ...> that either allows from or denys from a
> hostname (rather than an IP).
>

OK, i'll look into that.

>
> Note that in the default CustomLog setup, this will cause the logs
> to be written out using the value in REMOTE_HOST rather than
> REMOTE_ADDR, which is probably not very useful. (If the DNS was
> bogus, it's hard to track that down after the logs are run.)
>

This raises a question, I haven't looked at the new logs at all yet, but i was
hoping that i could monitor the log in real time with a tail -f, as i can on my set
ups at work and at home. Are we still going to have a daily log run?


>
> >Also there are some custom ENVs like RESELLER, OPBACCOUNTID and OPBSITEID
> >which i asume the admins are using for account auditing purposes. Harvesting
> >user data or some such.
>
> Those are probably coming from whatever Confluence is. I'd bet it's
> actually for your use rather than the sysadmins. Maybe some sort of
> shopping cart-type thing.
>

Well RESELLER contains my best customer ID, which would tend to indicate that it's
designed for best/verio accounting. Can't think what use it is to me. The others
are equally abstract/un documented. But I don't suppose it matters too much in the
grand scheme of things.
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Subject: Re: Migrating to Verio virtual web hosting: some q's for youse
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