Editing the log_hosts.config file

The default log_hosts.config file is located in /opt/WCG/config. To record HTTP and FTP transactions for different origin servers in separate log files, you must specify each origin server’s hostname on a separate line in the file.

Note:

You can specify keywords in the log_hosts.config file to record in a separate log file all transactions from origin servers that contain the specified keyword in their names. For example, if you specify the keyword sports, Content Gateway records all HTTP and FTP transactions from sports.yahoo.com and www.foxsports.com in a log file called squid-sports.log (if the Squid format is enabled).

If Content Gateway is clustered and if you enable log file collation, it is recommended that you use the same log_hosts.config file on every node in the cluster.

Steps

  1. Open the log_hosts.config file located in /opt/WCG/config.
  2. Enter the hostname of each origin server on a separate line in the file. For example:

    webserver1

    webserver2

    webserver3

  3. Save and close the file.
  4. To apply the changes, run the following command from the Content Gateway bin directory (/opt/WCG/bin):
    ./content_line -x