Original article: http://www.blue-bag.com/blog/excluding-common-requests-your-apache-logs
Log files can get filled up with repeated calls to files such as favicon, robots.txt, images, css js etc
Mostly you want to log the initial request for a page and not all of the resources subsequently requested.
Troubleshooting other issues may mean you would log files such as favicon, images etc - but generally they needlessly fill up your logs.
Do it ocassionally to look for missing images etc.
| apt-get install -y ppa-purge | |
| add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php5-oldstable | |
| apt-get update | |
| ppa-purge ppa:ondrej/php5 | |
| apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get autoremove -y && apt-get autoclean -y |
| echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc | |
| . ~/.bashrc | |
| mkdir ~/local | |
| mkdir ~/node-latest-install | |
| cd ~/node-latest-install | |
| curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1 | |
| ./configure --prefix=~/local | |
| make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds... | |
| curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh |