5 messages in ru.sysoev.nginxRe: logging forum user names/id
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KT WalrusDec 10, 2008 5:47 pm 
mikeDec 10, 2008 7:44 pm 
mikeDec 10, 2008 7:46 pm 
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Subject:Re: logging forum user names/idActions...
From:mike (mike@gmail.com)
Date:Dec 10, 2008 7:44:52 pm
List:ru.sysoev.nginx

i don't believe you can, unless nginx can log cookie values (i don't recall if it can) and the username/ids are stored plaintext (which any decent forum package shouldn't) in a cookie you can access

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:48 PM, KT Walrus <kev@my.walr.us> wrote:

I'm hosting a forum. I'd like to log the forum user name/id into nginx access_log.

What is the best way to do this?

Should I have forum php code set a header with this user name/id and somehow get this into an nginx variable I can use in the log_format statement?

Or, some other "better" approach?

Also, is there some way to print out all nginx conf variables that are visible (like phpinfo() does for php)? I'm having a hard time with the English wiki documentation as names of variables seem to be in multiple places (some of which I can't find).

Kevin