Disabling Apache Logging to Access.Log

Disable apache2 log

If you truly want to disable the logs, you must comment out any ErrorLog and CustomLog directives in your Apache configuration files. On Debian, these will be located in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and /etc/apache2/apache2.conf (the base configuration) and then /etc/apache2/sites-available/* (specific virtual host configurations).

You can comment them out by adding a '#' character in front of them.

Once the changes are made, run /etc/init.d/apache2 restart for the changes to take effect.

IMO, a better solution -- since logs are often very handy -- is to install log rotate as Sergey suggested above. In Debian, run this:

 sudo apt-get install logrotate

logrotate will, in its default configuration, split logs daily and compress the old ones, saving a ton of disk space while preserving the logs themselves.

Don't log certain requests in Apache access.log

The solution is to disable logging of certain requests (for example in
/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf with Debian 8):

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.mywebsite.com
  DocumentRoot /home/www/mywebsite
  ...
  SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/piwik(.*)$" dontlog
  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/other_vhosts_access.log vhost_combined env=!dontlog
</VirtualHost>

How to make Apache stop log some my Urls

Thanks to Nick and Tarun. I resolved my problem.
In my .htaccess file, I add some configs:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^automate/phpfile1/(.*) ?call=phpfile1. processSomething&module=$1
    RewriteRule ^automate/phpfile2/(.*) ?call=phpfile2.processSomethingElse&module=$1
</IfModule>

And in my httpd-vhosts.conf file, I set like below:

SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/automate/phpfile1/"  dontlog
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/automate/phpfile2/"  dontlog
CustomLog "logs/myapp.com-access.log" combined  env=!dontlog

So, apache doesn't logging Uris :D

How to disable access logs in apache via htaccess?

Answer is big NO. You cannot control Apache logging from .htaccess unfortunately.

Disable query strings in access log

Your common log format includes the query string in %r (first line of request)

What you can do is to add a new log format (keep the old one for reference, no need to remove it)

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%m %U %H\" %>s %b" common_no_querystring

where %m is the method (GET/POST), %U is the URL requested without querystring and %H is the HTTP version for the request. This will output the same line as %r, except the query string.

Then all you need to do is change the customlog line to;

CustomLog "logs/access.log" common_no_querystring

and you'll no longer get query strings in the log.

disable access logging for specific folder - centos 6 / apache 2.4

By default cPanel/WHM stores the access logs for the cPanel accounts (domains/sites/etc) in /usr/local/apache/domlogs/. That means that all the requests for that site are logged in that file (including the requests from folder1, folder2 etc).

You could try something like this:

Create an .htaccess file in /home/username/public_html/folder1/folder2/ with the content from bellow:

<IfModule mod_userdir.c> 
    UserDir public_html 
    SetEnvIf Request_URI "/nolog" dontlog
    CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/domain.com combined env=!dontlog
</IfModule>

See if that works (basically it should allow logging but exclude the requests from the files from folder1, folder2 etc).

If that doesn't work then you could edit /var/cpanel/userdata/username/domain.com and comment the bytes_log line and the access_log line. That should completely disable access logging of http requests for that domain. You might need to restart httpd and cpanel service for the changes to take effect.

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