Caching Proxy Help

About Log Files

You can select to log request information to the syslog, in addition to the access and error logs. If you do not check the syslog box, the server still logs request information to the access and error logs.
Note: The syslog file must be present on your server before you specify that error log information is to be written to it.

The server logs activity in the access log files: the proxy access log, cache access log, and access log.

Cache access logs are used for logging hits on the proxy cache and are valid only if your server is running as a caching proxy. Proxy access logs are used for logging proxy requests. The access logs contains entries for page requests made to the server.

The Log Files configuration page allows you to define where these files will be stored on your hard drive each night. At midnight, the server closes the current logs and creates new access log files for the coming day.

The server also creates an error log that includes errors encountered by your server's clients, such as timing out or not getting access, and an event log that stores routine messages from components, including cache initialization messages. The Log Files configuration page also allows you to define the location of the error log and event log files.

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