[Edu-sig] print to apache log from cgi script

[Titu Kim]

Thanks Schoen,
     I am trying to find a mailing list such as web
programming related. If anybody knows one, please do
not hesitate to tell me. 

Kim TItu
--- Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> wrote:
> Titu Kim writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >    How can i output some message apache log files
> so i
> > can see the progress in cgi script? If i use
> regular
> > print, cgi prints the content to client browser. 
> > 
> > Thanks for any suggestion.
> 
> With many Unix web servers like Apache, writing data
> to standard error
> instead of standard output results in its being
> logged instead of
> transmitted to the client.
> 
> You can write things to standard error by doing
> something like
> 
> import sys
> #
> # ...
> #
> sys.stderr.write("hello there from my CGI
> script.\n")
> 
> These errors are written _directly_ into the Apache
> error log for the
> appropriate virtual host, which means they will be
> intermingled with
> things like HTTP errors.  That might not be what you
> want; it could be
> better to open your own log file from within your
> CGI script, using
> the "open" file, and write the data directly into
> your private log
> file instead.
> 
> Questions about things like this might be more
> appropriate on some
> other list, although I'm not sure which one.
> 
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