Computer Security & Viruses/Apache files downloaded

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Expert: - 5/9/2004


Question
hello
I have an apache server.
i want to know which files were downloaded from my server.
From analysis the access.log file, i can only know which files were accessed, not downloaded.

how can i know that? is there an app out there that can help me?

Thanks

Answer
I'm presuming that by a file being accessed, your log file means the same thing as a web page being accessed? Because any web page or file that is accessed is, by definition, downloaded. If you have any doubt, Webalyzer, a free application, will give you even more details, which should answer any remaining questions.

If you are wondering whether your accessed files are actually being saved, that is a question that can't be answered, because file saving is a system level operation that you can't answer from outside the client's computer.

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Carolyn Meinel

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I cover Windows, Linux, TCP/IP and Ethernet security questions. I do not cover Mac, smart phones, or other networking issues.

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Books by Carolyn Meinel: wrote a chapter for The Hacking of America book (see http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1567204600/happyhacker) My article Code Red for the Web for Scientific American was reprinted in the book Best American Science Writing 2002 (see http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060936509/happyhacker). My book The Happy Hacker: A Guide to Mostly Harmless Hacking is now in 4th edition with a Japanese edition (see http://happyhacker.org/hhbook/).

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