Apache real-time connection monitor?

I'm new with apache, and i just got it set up on my windows xp
machine. I've installed it as a service. I was wondering... Is there
a real-time connection monitor where I can see incoming connections
and their activities as they happen? From the documentation i've read,
i'm starting to think that I'll have to run apache as a console app to
do this, but am unsure.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Nethtrick wrote:
>
> I'm new with apache, and i just got it set up on my windows xp
> machine. I've installed it as a service. I was wondering... Is there
> a real-time connection monitor where I can see incoming connections
> and their activities as they happen?

tail -f the log file of your choice.

Thor

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Thor wrote:

> tail -f the log file of your choice.
>
> Thor

I don't quite follow. Do you mean run "apache -f logfile"? The -f
parameter specifies a config file, so how does this allow me to see
real time connection activity? If your answer is that I need to modify
the configuration file, what do I change?

Thanks for your patience

-Nethtrick

Nethtrick wrote:
>
> Thor wrote:
>
> > tail -f the log file of your choice.

> I don't quite follow. Do you mean run "apache -f logfile"? The -f
> parameter specifies a config file, so how does this allow me to see
> real time connection activity?

tail is a utility for printing the last part of a file. The -f option makes
tail loop forever trying to read more, so "tail -f logfile" will allow you
to see new lines as they are added to the file.

Thor

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On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:58:58 +0300, Thor Kottelin <thor@anta.net>
wrote:
>
>Nethtrick wrote:
>>
>> Thor wrote:
>>
>> > tail -f the log file of your choice.
>
>> I don't quite follow. Do you mean run "apache -f logfile"? The -f
>> parameter specifies a config file, so how does this allow me to see
>> real time connection activity?
>
>tail is a utility for printing the last part of a file. The -f option makes
>tail loop forever trying to read more, so "tail -f logfile" will allow you
>to see new lines as they are added to the file.
>

tail isn't present by default on most Windows systems, but ports of it
from UNIX in various places.

The original poster might prefer to use WinTail, a Windows GUI
application which performs the same function as tail -f:
http://www.baremetalsoft.com/wintail/

-Claire