: Is it normal when the request line of apache log contains a ~username component? I have a site at a big hosting company and I checked the apache log generated by the site and I saw requests

@Speyer207

LogFormat and similar

Apache and other major players in the web service space generally will allow customisation to access and error logs. The access log of "GET hostname/~username/proj/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" is normal and working as intended, it is happening because your host is using LogFormat to output a log more to their liking.

In this case its most likely something like:

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t %v "%r" %>s %b "%{User-agent}i""


%h is the name of the hostname, %u is username and the other options do other things that you can find out more about LogFormat on Apache Module mod_log_config official help page. If you dislike their log files then you can setup a cron job that will copy the log file and then find and replace the parts you dislike, most web hosts allow cron jobs and if your with a good one then you should also have SSH access what makes it even easier.

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