I’m hosting a forum. I’d like to log the forum user name/id into
nginx access_log.
What is the best way to do this?
Should I have forum php code set a header with this user name/id and
somehow get this into an nginx variable I can use in the log_format
statement?
Or, some other “better” approach?
Also, is there some way to print out all nginx conf variables that are
visible (like phpinfo() does for php)? I’m having a hard time with
the English wiki documentation as names of variables seem to be in
multiple places (some of which I can’t find).
Kevin
i read it too quick - i don’t know if nginx can log headers. but it
would require it to log a RESPONSE header, which if it does log
headers, i am not sure it logs response headers.
better approach: do it in PHP. it will be much more portable and give
you ultimate control.
i don’t believe you can, unless nginx can log cookie values (i don’t
recall if it can) and the username/ids are stored plaintext (which any
decent forum package shouldn’t) in a cookie you can access
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:46:24PM -0800, mike wrote:
i read it too quick - i don’t know if nginx can log headers. but it
would require it to log a RESPONSE header, which if it does log
headers, i am not sure it logs response headers.
An upstream HEADER can be logged as “$upstream_http_HEADER_NAME”.
better approach: do it in PHP. it will be much more portable and give
you ultimate control.
Agree.
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:45:15PM -0800, mike wrote:
i don’t believe you can, unless nginx can log cookie values (i don’t
recall if it can) and the username/ids are stored plaintext (which any
decent forum package shouldn’t) in a cookie you can access
Since 0.7.24, you may use $cookie_NAME.