Apache Access Errors

[eXacto]

I have been running Apache for a week or two now on my main computer just to host some pictures and stuff that I have. I checked the log file today to find out that it was over 2mb!

Here is some of the the crap that I found in it, that seems to be generated by me going to websites, and for some reason it's using the loopback IP and so my Apache server is trying to fullfill that request:

[Wed Jul 16 22:29:13 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/apache/Apache2/htdocs/j.ad, referer: http://www.dpreview.com/
[Wed Jul 16 22:29:13 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/apache/Apache2/htdocs/adj, referer: http://www.dpreview.com/
[Wed Jul 16 22:29:13 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/apache/Apache2/htdocs/adi, referer: http://www.dpreview.com/
[Wed Jul 16 22:29:19 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/apache/Apache2/htdocs/j.ad, referer: http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read...message=5596774
[Wed Jul 16 22:33:59 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/apache/Apache2/htdocs/adj, referer: http://forums.serverwatch.com/forum...hp?s=&forumid=2
[Wed Jul 16 22:33:59 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/apache/Apache2/htdocs/adi, referer: http://forums.serverwatch.com/forum...hp?s=&forumid=2
[Wed Jul 16 22:34:04 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/apache/Apache2/htdocs/ad, referer: http://forums.serverwatch.com/showt...?threadid=16839
[Wed Jul 16 22:34:29 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/apache/Apache2/htdocs/adj, referer: http://forums.serverwatch.com/forum...hp?s=&forumid=2
[Wed Jul 16 22:34:29 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/apache/Apache2/htdocs/adi, referer: http://forums.serverwatch.com/forum...hp?s=&forumid=2
[Wed Jul 16 22:34:42 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/apache/Apache2/htdocs/adj, referer: http://forums.serverwatch.com/newth...hread&forumid=2

How the hell can I stop this crap from filling up my log file. Are there some settings in Apache that I need to fix?

 

[n0cmonkey]

I've never seen errors like that in the situation you describe. Run apache on a different machine.

 

[Kilrsat]

Do you have the kazaa "supertrick" or any other ad blocking through changing the hosts file?

A lot of them simply route known ad servers to 127.0.0.1, so if you were browsing from that machine it would be redirected to your apache server.

 

[eXacto]

Ok yes, I do have a custom hosts file that blocks tons of ad servers. So how can I tell Apache not to listen to the 127.0.0.1 address?

 

[darktubbly]

You could just turn off logging on Apache from 127.0.0.1 addresses, as shown here (scroll down to the part about Conditional Logs).