How to avoid 404 for images in access log?

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My access log is full of 404 logs for images not found; thus, it is
difficult to find real 200 successful visits. The lines include

… GET /css/img/calendar.png HTTP/1.1" 404 31
"http://mydomain.com.page.html …

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On 9/22/11, etrader [email protected] wrote:

My access log is full of 404 logs for images not found; thus, it is
difficult to find real 200 successful visits. The lines include

… GET /css/img/calendar.png HTTP/1.1" 404 31
"http://mydomain.com.page.html …

Try something like
cat access.log | grep " 200 "

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You mean to read only 200 requests in ssh or something like that?
I am looking for a way to avoid writing 404 requests in access log file
to keep the file tidy.

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Isn’t it possible to use multiple access_log to split the access log to
traffic and 404 logs ? Or probably writing 404 logs to error_log.

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On 9/22/11, etrader [email protected] wrote:

You mean to read only 200 requests in ssh or something like that?
I am looking for a way to avoid writing 404 requests in access log file
to keep the file tidy.

There is a way. But 404 requests are essential for security, i.e. to
see when someone is trying to hack your website, etc.

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My access log is full of 404 logs for images not found; thus, it is difficult to
find real 200 successful visits. The lines
include
… GET /css/img/calendar.png HTTP/1.1" 404 31
"http://mydomain.com.page.html …

Depending on if you don’t want to log 404 requests at all or just for
the images can probably do something like this:

location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png)$ {
error_page 404 @nolog;
}

location @nolog {
access_log off;
}

If you want it for any request just use the error_page without location
or even give a different logfile for the 404s.

rr

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Thanks Reinis! It worked like a charm. But I have another problem (maybe
I should to start a new thread). It lists the access of my own server to
images. When someone visits an html page, an addition to this trick, a
line is added with my server IP for reading the image within the html
page. Since I just want the track of my traffic, this is useless to have
it as my server has loaded the images.

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