: Apache logs: "::1 ... "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - Just looking at logs of a not-so-busy site on one of our Apache servers and notice tons of these in the log: ::1 - - [15/Apr/2011:12:11:40

@Deb1703797

i had this 'problem' and it was annoying as hell. one of two servers i have did this.
a year or two later... i just discovered that on one server i has listen 443 in the httpd.conf.

so i put the 'Listen 443' directive in the ssl.conf file.

apachectl graceful

poof... annoying problem gone.

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@Shanna517

Regarding your second question: ::1 is localhost in ipv6.
Regarding your third question:

# Mark requests for the robots.txt file
SetEnvIf Request_Method "^OPTIONS$" dontlog
# Log what remains
CustomLog logs/custom.log common env=!dontlog


see also httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/logs.html#accesslog

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@Kevin317

From here


It's Apache polling its child
processes to verify they're responding
correctly.

31-2 - 0/0/44 . 0.00 41 0 0.0 0.00
0.92 ::1 mxx1.xx.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

The second field, " - ", shows that
this isn't an active connection.. It's
the last connection that took place
for this particular thread/process.
Since Apache polls its children every
few minutes it's not unusual to see
many of these on a system with light
web traffic.

With some versions of Apache you'd see
a "GET /" instead of "OPTIONS *" for
these connections.

issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41796

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