Description: Cherokee is a flexible, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS or OpenSSL), virtual hosts, authentication, cache friendly features, PHP, custom error management, and much more.
Keywords: cherokee web server httpd http

## Index → Modules → Loggers

### Logger: Custom

This module implements a flexible mechanism for logging requests made to the server, using a user-specified format.

The format in which the request will be logged is defined by a string. This string is used to log each request to the log. It can contain both literal characters and a set of variables. All the literal characters will be copied to the log. The following variables will be evaluated right before writing each log entry:

Variable | Example | Description
--- | --- | ---
`${ip_remote}` | 74.125.67.100 | Remote IP-address
`${ip_local}` | 10.0.0.1 | Local IP-address
`${request}` | /file.txt | URL path requested
`${request_original}` | /file.txt | URL path requested before any rewrite
`${protocol}` | http | Request Protocol
`${port_server}` | 80 | Port of the server serving the request
`${query_string}` | ?bar=foo | "The query string, if exists"
`${request_first_line}` | GET / HTTP/1.0 | First line of request
`${status}` | 200 | Status of the request
`${now}` | 08/Apr/2009:12:02:11 +0200 | Time: in common log format time format
`${time_secs}` | 1239185281 | Time: seconds since Epoch
`${time_msecs}` | 18446744071655350332 | Time: milliseconds since Epoch
`${user_remote}` | guest | Remote user (authentication)
`${vserver_name}` | default | Virtual Server nick name

The templating subsystem provides slicing support in pretty much the same way that the Python strings do, allowing to use specific portions of any of these substitution macros. You can read more about this on the Template Subsystem section of the documentation.

### Example

For instance, the following format string:

    [${now}] ${ip_remote}: ${request} (${status})

would generate this entry in the log:

    [08/Apr/2009:12:02:11 +0200] 74.125.67.100: /file.txt (200)