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Date: 18 Dec 1998 23:28:22 -0000
From: Charles R.Bowman <crbowman@sojosoft.com>
Reply-To: crbowman@sojosoft.com
To: apbugs@hyperreal.org
Subject: LogFormat error message when executing httpd for the first time
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>Number:         3560
>Category:       config
>Synopsis:       LogFormat error message when executing httpd for the first time
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec 18 15:30:01 PST 1998
>Closed-Date:    Mon Oct 30 18:49:09 PST 2000
>Last-Modified:  Mon Oct 30 18:49:09 PST 2000
>Originator:     crbowman@sojosoft.com
>Release:        1.3.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
Linux 2.0.36 (Redhat 5.2)
>Description:
After installing Apache, upon executing httpd for the first time, I received the error message "LogFormat takes 1-2 arguments, a log format string (see docs) and an optional format name".
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
I corrected the httpd.conf file myself by placing backslashes before the inside quotation marks in the LogFormat directives.
The two corrected lines (lines 159 & 160) read as follows:
  LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"{User-Agent}i\"" combined
  LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common

Everything worked fine once I did this.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
State-Changed-By: marc
State-Changed-When: Fri Dec 18 15:34:22 PST 1998
State-Changed-Why:
Erm... they do have '\'s in front of the quotes within
quotes in the distributed conf file.

How did you install Apache?  Did you use some third party
packaged RPM or something, or install from the Apache
source?

From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To: Apache bugs database <apbugs@apache.org>
Cc:  Subject: Re: config/3560: LogFormat error message when executing httpd for
 the  first time (fwd)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 18:00:21 -0800 (PST)

 ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:03:36 -0600
 From: Charles Randolph Bowman <crbowman@sojosoft.com>
 To: marc@apache.org
 Subject: Re: config/3560: LogFormat error message when executing httpd for the 
     first time
 
 I used the Redhat 5.2 RPM apache-1.3.3-1.src.rpm found on their second
 CD-ROM in the directory /SRPMS.
 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback-closed
State-Changed-By: slive
State-Changed-When: Mon Oct 30 18:49:09 PST 2000
State-Changed-Why:
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