How to enable non-error Apache log on MAMP

Question

How can I enable non-error server logging on MAMP (or, am I totally blind, and is it already enabled by default?)

So far, I can only find the error logs for Apache, MySQL and PHP in /Applications/MAMP/logs. But I'd like to access the server log (ie, the rawest data that the server processes, all of the HTTP requests that it received/served, etc.)

Answer 1

I found the answer here: http://documentation.mamp.info/en/mamp/faq/where-can-i-find-the-logs/how-can-i-enable-the-apache-access-logs

The Apache HTTP Server access logs are disabled by default. To enable them, do the following:

Open the Apache HTTP configuration at /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf Find this line.

#CustomLog logs/access_log combined

Note that if you simply enable this directive, Apache will write the access logs to /Applications/MAMP/Library/logs/access_log , which is probably not what you want. It is better to store the access_log to /Applications/MAMP/logs/ , which is where the MySQL logs, PHP logs and Apache error logs are kept.

Change the line to say the following. This will write your access logs to the default log directory, using the 'LogFormat' named 'combined'. This 'combined' log format follows some common conventions.

CustomLog /Applications/MAMP/logs/apache_access_log combined

After doing this, restart your MAMP Apache server.

Answer 2

All is explained at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_log_config.html Use LogFormat to define a format, CustomLog to define a location.