In this page I detail how I found and logged my Apache web server.

Notes

First I cleared my browser cache and ran my Apache url correctly once, then incorrectly (where I indicated it to go to a page on my webserver that does not exist.) Then in /etc/httpd/logs/access_log, using the command "sudo tail /etc/httpd/logs/access_log", I was able to see those log entries. Below is a screenshot of those log entries if I directed my Apache server to "doesnotexist.html", which does not exist. (NOTE: in the below screenshot I already navigated to /etc/httpd):

Using the above screenshot, below is a table below detailing what the description of the field is and what that reflects in a successful url:

Field description	My log - Successful url
IP Address (%h)	10.0.5.150
RFC 1413 (%l)	-
Userid of the person requesting (%u)	-
Time that request was received (%t)	[28/Oct/2021 :10:52:54 -0400]
Request line from the client (\“%r”)	“Get / HTTP/1.1”
Status code that the server sends back to the client (%>s)	200
Size of object returned to client (%b)	276
HTTP request header ("%{Referer}i")	“-”
User-Agent HTTP request header ("%{User-agent}i")	“Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.81 Safari/537.36”

Using the above screenshot, below is a table below detailing what the description of the field is and what that reflects in a unsuccessful url:

Field description	My log - Unsuccessful url
IP Address (%h)	10.0.5.150
RFC 1413 (%l)	-
Userid of the person requesting (%u)	-
Time that request was received (%t)	[28/Oct/2021 :10:53:04 -0400]
Request line from the client (\“%r”)	“Get /doesnotexist.html HTTP/1.1”
Status code that the server sends back to the client (%>s)	404
Size of object returned to client (%b)	215
HTTP request header ("%{Referer}i")	“-”
User-Agent HTTP request header ("%{User-agent}i")	“Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.81 Safari/537.36”

Sources

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/logs.html