Log analysis for a web server
what is a log file for a server? Every server contain some basic details of their client in from of a file That file is called a “Server Log File”. It automatically saves the information about IP address, time, HTTP status code and some other details. They are stored under /var/log/Apache2/access.log directory for a Linux based server. How to check a log file? To inspect a log file there are two ways Manual inspection Tool base inspection In most of the cases cyber expert, prefer manual inspection. How to apply manual inspection on a log file? First of open log file using cat command to inspect it. You may find different data into that file. Now there is always a reason why you are applying that inspection. The answer is that there was an attack happened on your server. Now to investigate that attack you are applying inspection. Now you may find that the data are lengthy to investigate. For faster investigate you can find some words related to that attack....