Standard Log Output for Nginx and OLS

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Jordan

Nginx and OLS do not output the same log format. This causes issues for software such as Fail2ban and GoAccess, requiring different configuration for each server type or just not working at all.

GP OLS

• logFormat "%h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %b "%{Referer}i" "%{User-agent}i"
• "192.168.1.1 - - [01/Sep/2022:20:16:55 -0700] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 103639 "https://domain.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

GP Nginx

• '[$time_local] $remote_addr $upstream_response_time $upstream_cache_status $http_host "$request" $status $body_bytes_sent $request_time "$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" "$http3"';

• [01/Sep/2022:20:20:07 -0700] 76.70.117.243 1.360 - domain.com "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/2.0" 302 0 1.362 "https://domain.com" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

Correct OLS LogFormat

• `[%t] %h %T - %v "%r" %>s %b %T "%{Referer}i" "%{User-agent}i"