Logging page edits

[issmirnov]

Hello,

I wanted to ask if you would be open to a PR that implements logging of page edits (Action Mode: edit), in addition to page accesses (Action Mode: show).

My use case and rationale:

• I'm trying to build a Kibana dashboard that will track edits by users. Since I'm interested specifically in the edit action, the access.log is not very helpful - I can attempt to create some convoluted grok rule that will check that the ref page has a ?do=edit suffix but it's pretty painful. In addition, if I were to use the grep trick for referring page, then I would trigger accesses to media such as CSS, the logo, and other payloads.
• I can attempt to parse my nginx log directly, but I run into a similar issue with duplication of referral headers.
• Therefore, it would be simplest and least painful to inject this functionality into this extremely useful logging plugin, since then I can hook into the various dokuwiki util functions, the admin UI config page, and the already tested logging mechanism. I can then pull this edit log and feed it into my scripts.

My proposed approach:

• refactor action.php to contain methods logShowAction and logEditAction instead of logAccess. These will write to access.log and edit.log respectively.
• call one of these two functions in the tail of logPageAccess, branching on $ACT

I would love any feedback or suggestions you may wish to deliver, and if all is well I'd be happy to implement this and send in a PR within a few days. I think with the rise of various monitoring solutions it would benefit people to have this convenient file that they can pull.

[micgro42]

Wouldn't it be easier to use the authorstats-plugin?

[issmirnov]

No, this solves a different problem. There are various frameworks such as the ELK Stack and other log aggregators that have plugins well suited for sucking up Apache/Nginx formatted logs from text files.

The plugin you linked will only display that information on the wiki level, and will not write to a file.