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What's the setting in httpd.conf for that?



Post process the bloody logfile on a regular basis. You can legitimately capture IPs etc for a while, provided that it is for a good reason - fixing a problem, or gathering aggregate trends but not for direct marketing reasons against individuals who have not given consent. So, your logrotate.d/ might get a few post/pre rotate scripts, if it really bothers you.

I run a small UK based IT firm. So far I've turned down some of the logging on my HA Proxy instances and stopped logging IPs and user agents in general and a few other things. If I need to do some diags then I'll turn them on again. That's on the long term stored logs (due to backups). So far, my backups are smaller 8)

I do keep very detailed logs with IPs (actually full packet capture) in the ES cluster for IDS purposes but those are turned over (deleted) within a few hours. Less detailed logs last a lot longer.


> Post process the bloody logfile on a regular basis.

Or, maybe, just block all of the EU.... probably a lot easier for a small site.




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