i@m.fm

Frank Michlick's blog

Entries Comments



Month: December, 2004

A Toy With a Story

23 December, 2004 (20:54) | Play/DemoScene/c64 | By: Frank Michlick

A toy with a story [via StarNewsOnline.com] describes how Jeri Ellsworth built the C64 direct to TV Joystick. Great story. I wish the joystick was designed like competition pro extra though ;-)

Apache: Logging the ServerAlias used by the client

16 December, 2004 (19:58) | Main Page | By: Frank Michlick

I have a webserver set up with Apache that responds to several 
Aliases – basically it is some type of a parking page for unused
domains. I wanted to capture which URL the user actually entered in my
logfiles.

It took me a while to figure it out, but I did end up setting up a custom logfile format that does the trick:

LogFormat “%h %l %u %t \”%r\” %>s %b \”%{Referer}i\” \”%{User-Agent}i\” \”%{HOST}i\”" complete_log

CustomLog /var/log/apache/your.domain.com/complete.log complete_log

Basically this creates a standard combined log, with the actual request hostname appended at the end:


127.0.0.1 – - [16/Dec/2004:19:49:40
+0100] “GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1″ 404 287 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U;
Linux i686; chrome://navigator/locale/navigator.properties; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0″ “your.domainalias.com”

And here’s what my former boss is doing…

3 December, 2004 (17:37) | Work | By: Frank Michlick

The trial against him is starting today: Bloomberg.com: Millionaire Falk’s Lawyers Seek to Throw Out Judges

Falk has been charged with share price manipulation, tax
evasion and serious fraud for inflating revenue at Ision ahead of
the sale, the regional court in Hamburg said in November when it
announced it would open proceedings. Falk denies the allegations,
which relate to the sale of 75 percent of Ision Internet to
Energis Plc for 812 million euros ($1.1 billion) in 2000.

Actually I am still stuck with worthless Energis stock :( Energis is not being traded any more.