Turn on logging on a Web site
Internet Information Services (IIS) logging is
designed to be more detailed than the event-logging or performance-monitoring
features of Windows Server 2003. The IIS logs can include information such as
who has visited your site, what they viewed, and when the information was
viewed last. You can monitor attempts, either successful or unsuccessful, to
access your Web sites, virtual folders, or files. This includes events such as
reading the file or writing to the file. Events can be logged independently for
any site, virtual folder, or file. By regularly reviewing these log files, you
can detect areas of your server or your sites that may be subject to attacks or
suffer from other security problems.
To turn on logging on a Web
site, follow these steps:
- Start the Internet Information Services Manager. To do
this, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services.
- Double-click your
server_name, where
server_name is the name of the server.
- Expand the Web Site folder.
- Right-click the Web site for which you want to turn on
logging, and then click Properties.
- On the Website tab, select Enable Logging.
Note Both Enable Logging on the
Website tab and Log visits on the
Home Directory Tab must be checked for logging to be
enabled.
- Select a format in the Active log format list.
- Click
Properties, click the Advanced tab, and then
select the items that you want to monitor in the log.
NOTE: If you select ODBC logging, click Properties, provide the ODBC Data Source Name (DSN), table, user name, and
password, and then click OK
- On the General tab, select the way that you want to schedule the logging or
change the Log file folder. For more information, see the "Configuration
options
for saving
IIS log
files"
section of this article.
- Click OK.
courtesy : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324279
C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\
