Re: Can anyone explain this stuff in my apache error_log please

PyBlosxom has its own logging system which if you haven't set it up will 
log to stderr and thus make it into your Apache logs.  If you do set it 
up, it's just as easy to log messages and follow them and you end up 
with more information since you can specify logging levels.

Given that, these lines that are logged are probably from either 
PyBlosxom itself or from somewhere in one of the other plugins.  Beyond 
that, I don't know what's going on--I'd have to look into it.

/will


Chris G wrote:
> This is pyblosxom related!
> 
> I use "print >>sys.stderr" in a plugin I'm writing to log information
> to the apache error_log file.  This is on a home desktop system so
> it's a quite acceptable (and easy) way of getting debug information
> while writing code.
> 
> I have recently changed from Slackware to Fedora and at the same time
> have now got a much newer version of apache.  I'm now seeing stuff
> like the following in my apache error_log:-
> 
>     [Wed Oct 10 08:55:43 2007] [error] [client 193.128.168.194] fullPath is  /home/chris/webdev/info/
>     [Wed Oct 10 08:55:43 2007] [error] [client 193.128.168.194] editFile is /home/chris/webdev/info//index.rst
>     [Wed Oct 10 08:55:50 2007] [error] [client 193.128.168.194] fullPath is  /home/chris/webdev/info/Home/index, referer: http://home.isbd.net/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi
>     [Wed Oct 10 08:55:50 2007] [error] [client 193.128.168.194] editFile is /home/chris/webdev/info/Home/index.rst, referer: http://home.isbd.net/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi
> 
> What's the producer/cause of those second two lines with "referer:"
> in them?  As far as I know my plugin python is only writing the first
> two and somehow python/apache/pyblosxom is adding the second two.
> More to the point why are the values of 'fullPath' and 'editFile'
> different?  The second two lines are followed by a full error traceback 
> of several lines to an error that relates to the 'wrong' values of 
> fullPath and editFile.
> 
> 
> This may relate to another problem I have, the plugin works perfectly
> when run using firefox on my home system (i.e. where pyblosxom and the
> apache server are) but is failing when run using Firefox from a remote
> system, though it's still a Fedora 7 system.  I.e. when I run my
> pyblosxom plugin using the browser at home I only see the first two of 
> the lines shown above in the apache error_log, it's only when I run
> it from a remote firefox that the second two lines and the error
> traceback appear (and pyblosxom diaplays an error message rather 
> than the expected page).
> 

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