I have a strange situation that I hope that one of you smart guys can help me with. I have a lamp server setup with a couple of vhosts. Investigating the log files for a situation I found that it seems to be missing some entries. The access log contains a long list of files (images and css) requested by the client regarding a request to a page (having a specific url as referer), but the actual request is missing. The url called is an automatically generated url that should only be available as an unsubscribe link in emails send to a specific user, thus the use of it in the logs is limited At the same time I can find log entries in our database that I am 99.9% sure can only originate from this specific URL being requested (never say never). These log entries are stamped just before all the auxiliary requests having the url as referer, but again the actual request is not to be found. Can you figure out why I am seeing this? It happened in the middle of the day and thus was not influenced by log rotation. Thanks in advance
How can it be that once you get your self to write a post the answer pops into your head moments after posting... The request was not missing, but the apache log was configures to NOT log the query part of the request. The request thus became a "normal" request hidden between a lot of other requests. Thanks anyway