One of the side-effects of owncloud is the client chatter, all those PROPFIND attempts.
grep -c PROPF /var/log/httpd/httpd-access.log which is about 1/4 of the log file:
2740
9438 /var/log/httpd/httpd-access.log
I have yet to decipher the right Sacred Rune that will tell me how to prevent this cruft from being logged. I’m able to ignore/not log traffic from 127.0.0.1 but cannot ignore requests for specific URI contents (like PROPFIND requests) or by other IP addresses.
Aha. It turns out the issue was either some old stuff that was messing up the evaluation process of each request or that the IfSetEnvIF requests have to come in order. Or it just doesn’t work, as I have tested those already. Requests from 192.168.0.x networks are logged, but requests from the outside are ignored. Requests for some specified directories are not logged but others are, despite near identical config options.
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI "^/metrics" dontlog
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI "^PROPFIND" dontlog
Seems legit.
192.168.0.4 - paul [10/Apr/2013:15:38:30 -0700] "GET /cloud/status.php HTTP/1.1" 200 74
I wonder if it’s because I am authenticated?
Nope, it seems to be the menubar client (on OS X) that does that. In a browser, none of the requests are logged, even authenticated. But the little menubar gadget? Everything is logged…
What’s also interesting is that IP addresses can be used unescaped. I didn’t know that.
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr "192.168.0.4" dontlog