My log fills up with jpg requests

setenvif?

[smiddy]

My website hosts a lot of images. Does it make sense to issue this statement in my httpd.conf file?

SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.jpg$" dontlog

I can't see any reason why I need to log these for security purposes. Can you?

[jdMorgan]

That depends on whether you occasionally scan your logs (or stats) for evidence of hotlinking -- people putting image links on their Websites that cause their visitors browsers to fetch the images from your server. If this is not a concern, then you might want to disable logging for image requests.

Jim

[smiddy]

Ahhh....good point. I'll keep that one in mind.

[killroy]

Personally I use:

<FilesMatch "(\.(gif¦jpg¦png¦ico¦css¦js)¦robots\.txt)$">
SetEnv image-request 1
SetEnv dont-log 1
</FilesMatch>
CustomLog logs/access.log complete env=!dont-log

Does setting "dontlog" instead of my own "dont-log" mean u can skip the "env=" parameter for CustomLog?

SN

[sitz]

Also matters for things link hitcount (or bytecount) tracking. If you don't log those requests, you can't track them at all; you can't see which images are getting hit hard, and figuring out how much traffic you're pushing in a day becomes tricky (to say the least). If these aren't issues, then by all means, look into not logging. Me, I log every request, even on the sites where I need to roll/compress my logs multiple times per day to keep things running smoothly. =)

[jollymcfats]

I don't log image requests unless they have an off-site referrer.

<Files ~ "\.(gif¦jpe?g¦png¦ico)$"> 
  SetEnvIf intra_site_referral 1 common_image_request 
</Files> 
CustomLog access_log combined env=!common_image_request