I'm trying to get cookies in the Apache log files, but it isn't working.

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf contains:
LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_usertrack.so
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" \"%{Cookie}i\"" combined
CustomLog logs/access_log combined

.htaccess contains:
CookieTracking On
CookieExpires "5 years"
CookieName "mycookie"

and I've restarted Apache via:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start

but nada in access_log. I've tried modifying vhost.conf too.

Am I missing a typo, or what?

Thanks!

 

If your cookie name is "mycookie", then should it not be: %{mycookie}C

Per the Apache docs:

%...{Foobar}C The contents of cookie Foobar in the request sent to the server.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_log_config.html#cookielog

(I've never logged cookies, so I have never used this log option myself)

 

That's not it, see:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_usertrack.html#cookietracking

I had this working on a previous (non-Plesk, shared) host.

If cookies are being logged and no cookie exists, I should see a "-" at the end of the request line in the the log file. Not there.

 

Finally figured this out. The cookies were getting written to the client, and were getting passed. The issue had to do with the Apache configuration. Coding the following specific fpointer to the log file in vhost.conf fixed it:

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" \"%{Cookie}i\"" combined
CustomLog /home/httpd/vhosts/mydomain.com/statistics/logs/access_log combined

Dear SWsoft: Please please please document the relationship between httpd.conf, httpd.include, and vhost.conf, and how to manage the location and contents of the log files. This took hours upon hours of experimentation and research.