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For about 36 hours I made a config mistake and left an apache2 server forward proxy open to all. I've closed this, but the server is still getting hammered by hopeful ad spammers. My apache error log is filling up with [error] [client 108.62.178.124] client denied by server configuration ... Can I suppress these error messages?

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You could change the LogLevel but you might miss something, that said you could miss something with too much noise!

Reference: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#LogLevel

Other potential options:

  • If there are only a few IP addresses the firewall them?
  • Put the logs into a log analyser and filter the noise, bonus points for setting up alerting on genuine error conditions at this point.
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  • Thanks, but these are [errors] which means I can't filter them by loglevel, I assume, because errors are always logged. The answer would be to stop this particular error message, but I don't know if it is possible to do that. Mar 26, 2013 at 11:16
  • no,I'm wrong. loglevel crit will block them Mar 26, 2013 at 11:17
  • It's a scale so crit, alert and emerg won't show error (and below).
    – rjocoleman
    Mar 26, 2013 at 11:23

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