Enabling Logging

You can enable logging for individual Web and FTP sites and choose the log format for each site. (The log file is an ASCII file or ODBC-compliant database, and is separate from the event-logging carried out through use of Windows NT Server features.) When logging is enabled, it is enabled for all the site's directories, but you can disable it for specific directories.

Before enabling logging for a site, you should know which log format you want to use. For descriptions of the available formats, see About Logging Web Site Activity.

You can specify the log-file directory, as well as the criterion for the starting of a new log file (for example, daily, weekly, or by file size). For more information, see Specifying How Log Files are Saved.

To enable logging on a Web or FTP site
  1. Select a Web or FTP site, and open its property sheets.
  2. On the Web Site or FTP Site property sheet, select the Enable Logging check box.
  3. In the Active log format list, select a format.

    4. By default, the Enable Logging check box is selected and the format is W3C Extended Log File Format, with the following fields enabled: Time, Client IP Address, Method, and URI Stem. For descriptions of these fields, and information about selecting different fields, see Customizing W3C Extended Logging.

    For information about necessary steps for ODBC logging, see Preparing for ODBC Logging.

  4. Click Apply.
  5. Click OK.

To disable or enable logging for a specific directory on a site

  1. Select the directory or site and open its property sheets.
  2. On the Home Directory or Directory property sheet, under Content Control, find the Log access check box.

    3. By default, the check box is selected.

  3. To disable logging for the directory, clear the check box; to enable logging, select the check box.
  4. Click OK.

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