[TriLUG] apache access_log

[James c. Jones]

Paul,

It turns out that I was using a very old internal router in my LAN. I
could set my internal router to defaults and I would get proper access
logging for one test and then it would revert back to reading only my ip
address. I switched out the old router and everything has been logged
proper since.

Sometimes all the knowledge in the world doesn't help when hardware goes
south.

Thanks for the comments.

jcj
Paul McLanahan wrote:
> My suspicion is that the "modem" they gave you is a "modem/router", which is
> giving your router a NATed IP via DHCP, which your router is in turn NATing.
> This could cause apache to think that all requests are coming from the
> internal IP of the cable modem's router interface. Most of those kinds of
> devices have a web-based admin tool. If you can get the password for it then
> you can usually turn off that device's router functions, and use your router
> to do the NATing. I've seen this mostly in DSL modems, but according to what
> I can find on Google about that series of cable modems, some do have built
> in routers.
>
> HTH,
>
> Paul
>
> On Jan 12, 2008 10:40 AM, James c. Jones <jonesjc at intrex.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Good Morning,
>>
>> I recently added a time warner business class internet connection.
>>
>> I set up a router to their cable modem and hooked my webserver into it.
>> Everything seems to be working okay, except ....
>>
>> In my httpd access_log, the only ip address that shows is mine? In my
>> past setup, the requesting ip address was shown.
>>
>> Since the httpd config file has not changed as far as logging is
>> concerned, I suspect that it is a pass through configuration either in
>> my router or in the time warner prestige 900 modem.
>>
>> My router is an smc barricade router.
>>
>>
>> If anyone is familiar with the problem, I would appreciate their
>> comments and help.
>>
>> jcj
>>
>>