rewritelog in htaccess not working as expected

[nsr500]

Based on this post

You are correct - the access logs are not updated in real-time.
If you do need faster logging, you can try overriding mod_rewrite (via .htaccess) to write to a separate file:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mo ... rewritelog

tried various combinations (# lines below) but everything results in Internal Server Error so I am missing something simple. The goal is to parse the access log with less lag and update the deny list.

Suggestions?

Cheers,
Tim.

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#AllowOverride All
#RewriteBase /
#RewriteEngine on
# neither path works
#RewriteLog "/home/n/nsr500/access.log"
#RewriteLog "/var/log/httpd/nsr500/access.log"
#RewriteLogLevel 2
...

[joemuller]

It appears, that I misspoke earlier.

According to the documentation for Apache 1.3 (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html) and specifically for rewrite (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mo ... RewriteLog), any settings for logging are not able to be changed from .htaccess. The same is true for Apache 2.x.

So, without direct access to the server-level configuration files for Apache, logs can't be changed. The newest versions of Apache allow configurations to be broken out on a per-site level for greater control, but that is not possible here.

[nsr500]

Appreciate the correction.