I'm a developer working for a company and, for better or worse, their IT Dept. handles the server that my current web application exists on. It's a LAMP server and, right now, the access log file sits one folder outside the scope of the server directory, which is to say that I can't access it through scripts on the server.
I wrote a simple RegEx parser in JS but because the file is just outside of the server directory I have to go into the file and manually copy it's contents to another file on the server.
If my question is basic, I apologize, but I have never worked with configuring an Apache server and I don't have rights to test anything. Google searches haven't turned up what I was looking for.
My question: On a LAMP stack is it possible to move the access log file onto the server directly? If it is, is there a reason that I shouldn't request that this be done? Keep in mind the site only faces internally and I only need read permissions on the file.