# Missing xvhost of ServerListenerStreamPublisher in ACCESS LOG

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/missing-xvhost-of-serverlistenerstreampublisher-in-access-log/47017>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** server-administration\
**Created:** [May 9, 2016, 9:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/missing-xvhost-of-serverlistenerstreampublisher-in-access-log/47017 "2016-05-09T09:36:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maurizio\_Carella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@Maurizio\_Carella](https://community.wowza.com/u/Maurizio_Carella)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 9:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/missing-xvhost-of-serverlistenerstreampublisher-in-access-log/47017/1 "2016-05-09T09:36:16Z")

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Hi,

I setup my VHost with StreamPublisher plugin to play a playlist. To get last item played I parse access log, getting lines like “ServerListenerStreamPublisher PlayList Item Start: mp4:%.mp4” adding where condition "xvhost = ‘_VHost\_1_’ ". But on many VHost, the Logger doesn’t write which VHost played that Item. Why?

Maurizio

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Hatchett](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hatchett/32/391_2.png) [@Jason\_Hatchett](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hatchett)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/missing-xvhost-of-serverlistenerstreampublisher-in-access-log/47017/2 "2016-05-16T02:54:32Z")

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Hello Maurizio,

It sounds like you are provisioning separate VHosts, so have you also configured a specific logging configuration for these VHosts in the log4j.properties file?

Regards

Jason Hatchett

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Hatchett](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hatchett/32/391_2.png) [@Jason\_Hatchett](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hatchett)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/missing-xvhost-of-serverlistenerstreampublisher-in-access-log/47017/3 "2016-05-23T00:56:40Z")

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Hello Maurizio,

In the default log4j.properties file there are two sections that in the default are commented out, one starts with this comment:

#### APPLICATION LEVEL LOGGING CONFIG - START

the other starts with this comment:

#### VHOST LEVEL LOGGING CONFIG - START

I woudl suggest trying to utilize these logging levels in your workflow and this How-To article can help you enable those logging elements:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-vhost-and-application-context-logging](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-vhost-and-application-context-logging)

If one of these options does not clear up the issue you are reporting please let me know.

Regards,

Jason Hatchett

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**Author:** ![Maurizio\_Carella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@Maurizio\_Carella](https://community.wowza.com/u/Maurizio_Carella)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/missing-xvhost-of-serverlistenerstreampublisher-in-access-log/47017/4 "2016-05-19T22:05:15Z")

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> Hello Maurizio,
> 
> It sounds like you are provisioning separate VHosts, so have you also configured a specific logging configuration for these VHosts in the log4j.properties file?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jason Hatchett

Hi Jason,

apologizes for being late. My wowza system write access\_log and play\_stop\_log to MYSQL database. My log4j configuration is the following.

```auto
log4j.rootCategory=INFO, stdout, serverAccess, serverError, SQ, SQ_PLAY
# Console appender
log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=com.wowza.wms.logging.ECLFPatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.Fields=x-severity,x-category,x-event,x-ctx,x-comment
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.OutputHeader=false
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.QuoteFields=false
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.Delimiter=space
# Access appender
log4j.appender.serverAccess=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.serverAccess.encoding=UTF-8
log4j.appender.serverAccess.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.serverAccess.File=${com.wowza.wms.ConfigHome}/logs/wowzastreamingengine_access.log
log4j.appender.serverAccess.layout=com.wowza.wms.logging.ECLFPatternLayout
#log4j.appender.serverAccess.layout.Fields=x-severity,x-category,x-event;date,time,c-client-id,c-ip,c-port,cs-bytes,sc-bytes,x-duration,x-sname,x-stream-id,x-spos,sc-stream-bytes,cs-stream-bytes,x-file-size,x-file-length,x-ctx,x-comment
log4j.appender.serverAccess.layout.Fields=date,time,tz,x-event,x-category,x-severity,x-status,x-ctx,x-comment,x-vhost,x-app,x-appinst,x-duration,s-ip,s-port,s-uri,c-ip,c-proto,c-referrer,c-user-agent,c-client-id,cs-bytes,sc-bytes,x-stream-id,x-spos,cs-stream-bytes,sc-stream-bytes,x-sname,x-sname-query,x-file-name,x-file-ext,x-file-size,x-file-length,x-suri,x-suri-stem,x-suri-query,cs-uri-stem,cs-uri-query
log4j.appender.serverAccess.layout.OutputHeader=true
log4j.appender.serverAccess.layout.QuoteFields=false
log4j.appender.serverAccess.layout.Delimeter=tab
# Error appender
log4j.appender.serverError=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.serverError.encoding=UTF-8
log4j.appender.serverError.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.serverError.File=${com.wowza.wms.ConfigHome}/logs/wowzastreamingengine_error.log
log4j.appender.serverError.layout=com.wowza.wms.logging.ECLFPatternLayout
log4j.appender.serverError.layout.Fields=x-severity,x-category,x-event;date,time,c-client-id,c-ip,c-port,cs-bytes,sc-bytes,x-duration,x-sname,x-stream-id,x-spos,sc-stream-bytes,cs-stream-bytes,x-file-size,x-file-length,x-ctx,x-comment
log4j.appender.serverError.layout.OutputHeader=true
log4j.appender.serverError.layout.QuoteFields=false
log4j.appender.serverError.layout.Delimeter=tab
log4j.appender.serverError.Threshold=WARN
log4j.appender.serverStats=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.serverStats.encoding=UTF-8
log4j.appender.serverStats.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.serverStats.File=${com.wowza.wms.ConfigHome}/logs/wowzastreamingengine_stats.log
log4j.appender.serverStats.layout=com.wowza.wms.logging.ECLFPatternLayout
log4j.appender.serverStats.layout.Fields=x-severity,x-category,x-event;date,time,c-client-id,c-ip,c-port,cs-bytes,sc-bytes,x-duration,x-sname,x-stream-id,x-spos,sc-stream bytes,cs-stream-bytes,x-file-size,x-file-length,x-ctx,x-comment
log4j.appender.serverStats.layout.OutputHeader=true
log4j.appender.serverStats.layout.QuoteFields=false
log4j.appender.serverStats.layout.Delimeter=tab
log4j.appender.serverStats.layout.CategoryInclude=session,stream
log4j.appender.serverStats.layout.EventExclude=comment
# Write to database
log4j.appender.SQ=org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender
log4j.appender.SQ.Driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
log4j.appender.SQ.URL=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/<dbname>
log4j.appender.SQ.user=<dbuser>
log4j.appender.SQ.password=<dbpass>
log4j.appender.SQ.layout=com.wowza.wms.logging.ECLFPatternLayout
log4j.appender.SQ.layout.OutputHeader=false
log4j.appender.SQ.layout.EventInclude=play,stop
log4j.appender.SQ.sql=INSERT INTO play_stop_log (date, time, tz, xevent, xcategory, xseverity,xstatus,xctx,xcomment,xvhost,xapp,xappinst,xduration,sip,sport,suri,cip,cproto,creferrer,cuseragent,cclientid,csbytes,scbytes,xstreamid, xspos,csstreambytes,scstreambytes,xsname,xsnamequery,xfilename,xfileext,xfilesize,xfilelength,xsuri,xsuristem,xsuriquery,csuristem,csuriquery) VALUES ('%X{date}', '%X{time}', '%X{tz}', '%X{x-event}', '%X{x-category}', '%X{x-severity}', '%X{x-status}', '%X{x-ctx}', '%X{x-comment}', '%X{x-vhost}', '%X{x-app}', '%X{x-appinst}', '%X{x-duration}', '%X{s-ip}', '%X{sport}', '%X{s-uri}', '%X{c-ip}', '%X{c-proto}', '%X{c-referrer}', '%X{c-user-agent}', '%X{c-client-id}', '%X{cs-bytes}', '%X{scbytes}', '%X{x-stream-id}', '%X{x-spos}','%X{cs-stream-bytes}', '%X{sc-stream-bytes}', '%X{x-sname}', '%X{x-sname-query}', '%X{x-file-name}', '%X{x-file-ext}', '%X{x-file-size}', '%X{x-file-length}','%X{x-suri}','%X{x-suri-stem}', '%X{x-suri-query}', '%X{c-suri-stem}', '%X{c-suri-query}');
log4j.appender.SQ_PLAY=org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender
log4j.appender.SQ_PLAY.Driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
log4j.appender.SQ_PLAY.URL=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/<dbname>
log4j.appender.SQ_PLAY.user=<dbuser>
log4j.appender.SQ_PLAY.password=<dbpass>
log4j.appender.SQ_PLAY.layout=com.wowza.wms.logging.ECLFPatternLayout
log4j.appender.SQ_PLAY.layout.OutputHeader=false
log4j.appender.SQ_PLAY.layout.EventInclude=comment
log4j.appender.SQ_PLAY.sql=INSERT INTO accesslog (date, time, tz, xevent, xcategory, xseverity,xstatus,xctx,xcomment,xvhost,xapp,xappinst,xduration,sip,sport,suri,cip,cproto,creferrer,cuseragent,cclientid,csbytes,scbytes,xstreamid, xspos,csstreambytes,scstreambytes,xsname,xsnamequery,xfilename,xfileext,xfilesize,xfilelength,xsuri,xsuristem,xsuriquery,csuristem,csuriquery) VALUES ('%X{date}', '%X{time}', '%X{tz}', '%X{x-event}', '%X{x-category}', '%X{x-severity}', '%X{x-status}', '%X{x-ctx}', '%X{x-comment}', '%X{x-vhost}', '%X{x-app}', '%X{x-appinst}', '%X{x-duration}', '%X{s-ip}', '%X{sport}', '%X{s-uri}', '%X{c-ip}', '%X{c-proto}', '%X{c-referrer}', '%X{c-user-agent}', '%X{c-client-id}', '%X{cs-bytes}', '%X{scbytes}', '%X{x-stream-id}', '%X{x-spos}','%X{cs-stream-bytes}', '%X{sc-stream-bytes}', '%X{x-sname}', '%X{x-sname-query}', '%X{x-file-name}', '%X{x-file-ext}', '%X{x-file-size}', '%X{x-file-length}','%X{x-suri}','%X{x-suri-stem}', '%X{x-suri-query}', '%X{c-suri-stem}', '%X{c-suri-query}');

```

There are many commentd lines about “VHOST LEVEL LOGGING CONFIG” but why many VHost write its own name on DB and many other not?

Thanks,

Maurizio