Bug 46214

Summary:	mod_authz_host (trunk) writes noisy and strange error logs
Product:	Apache httpd-2	Reporter:	Takashi Sato <takashi.asfbugzilla>
Component:	Other Modules	Assignee:	Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	ErrorMessage
Priority:	P1
Version:	2.5-HEAD
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Takashi Sato 2008-11-14 09:43:31 UTC

mod_authz_host outputs error logs for each Require directives.
For example, if httpd.conf is:

<Location /server-info>
	SetHandler server-info
	Require ip 10.0.0.0/8
	Require ip 172.16.0.0/15
	Require ip 192.168.0.0/16
</Location>

when I access server-info from 127.0.0.1 error log says:

[Sat Nov 15 02:32:56 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] access to /server-info failed, reason: ip address list does not meet 'require'ments for user '(null)' to be allowed access
[Sat Nov 15 02:32:56 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] access to /server-info failed, reason: ip address list does not meet 'require'ments for user '(null)' to be allowed access
[Sat Nov 15 02:32:56 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] access to /server-info failed, reason: ip address list does not meet 'require'ments for user '(null)' to be allowed access
[Sat Nov 15 02:32:56 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /home/aptest/apache2-trunk/htdocs/server-info


Noisy...


Further more, even if finally access is granted, error log reads "access to /server-info failed".
Under that configuration when I access server-info from 192.168.0.1:

[Sat Nov 15 02:33:04 2008] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] access to /server-info failed, reason: ip address list does not meet 'require'ments for user '(null)' to be allowed access
[Sat Nov 15 02:33:04 2008] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] access to /server-info failed, reason: ip address list does not meet 'require'ments for user '(null)' to be allowed access


Strange!!!

Comment 1 Stefan Fritsch 2010-07-17 05:19:59 UTC

The loglevel for these messages has been changed from error to debug in r964156. But we should improve the wording, too.

Comment 2 Eric Covener 2011-08-07 14:07:59 UTC

Thanks Takashi -- i actually removed these messages entirely in r1154706 since they don't add anything to the smarter messages in mod_authz_core which is calling into mod_authz_host repeatedly.