Grab Apache Logs

[EchoFool]

Is it possible in php to grab Apache logs from your server to be displayed in a php page? I been wanting to work out how so i don't have to constantly keep logging into cpanel to read them!

 

Any one ever heard of this done?

[BobcatM]

Format issue.

[BobcatM]

Here is the one I used at one time.

 

<?php
exec('tail /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log', $output);
?>
<Table border="1">
    <tr>
        <th>Date</th>
        <th>Type</th>
        <th>Client</th>
        <th>Message</th>
    </tr>
<?
    foreach($output as $line) {
        // sample line: [Wed Oct 01 15:07:23 2008] [error] [client 76.246.51.127] PHP 99. Debugger->handleError() /home/gsmcms/public_html/central/cake/libs/debugger.php:0
        preg_match('~^\[(.*?)\]~', $line, $date);
        if(empty($date[1])) {
                continue;
        }
        preg_match('~\] \[([a-z]*?)\] \[~', $line, $type);
        preg_match('~\] \[client ([0-9\.]*)\]~', $line, $client);
        preg_match('~\] (.*)$~', $line, $message);
        ?>
    <tr>
        <td><?=$date[1]?></td>
        <td><?=$type[1]?></td>
        <td><?=$client[1]?></td>
        <td><?=$message[1]?></td>
    </tr>
        <?
    }
?>
</table>

[EchoFool]

Thanks!

 

Though i get this error:

 

PHP Warning:  exec() has been disabled for security reasons in errors.php on line 2

 

Is there a safer function to use?

[EchoFool]

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