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How to reveal hackers and spammers in standard nginx logs (OS X instruction)
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| # put this file in home folder | |
| date_format %d/%b/%Y | |
| log_format %h %^[%d:%^] "%r" %s %b "%R" "%u" |
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| 1) brew install goaccess | |
| 2) cd to logs folder | |
| 3) gunzip -c nginx.* | goaccess -p ~/.goaccessrc # does not work without explicit path to config (bug!) | |
| select [5-hosts], enter and see most active hosts (bots, scanners, etc.) | |
| 4) gunzip -c nginx.access* | awk '($9 ~ /404/)' | cut -d " " -f 1,6,7,8 | uniq | less | |
| see and analyze 404 errors manually |
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