The Apache HTTP Server provides very comprehensive and flexible logging capabilities. This document describes how to configure its logging capabilities, and how to understand what the logs contain.

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Said tool is ApacheGUI. ApacheGUI makes configuring your web server as well as needed virtual hosts so much easier. The tool also gets you easy access to all of the Apache log and help files.

The basic Apache program also lacks bandwidth throttling, dynamic log rotation, and support for virtual server classes and clustering—desiderata for large enterprise and hosting sites.

If you're looking for a useful log analysis program, check out Analog. This powerful, fast tool creates Web pages based on the analysis of Apache log files.