track my website visitors with .htaccess resrictions

Question

I have a website that only few IP's have access to see (list of ip's in the .htaccess file) now i want to create some log to track the ip's that tried to get into my website and they are not allowed - not on the list. if it is possible to write every attempt to the database? and if it's not possible to know the IP , maybe just write the date and time they try to. any suggestion? thanks, Mor

Answer 1

Assuming you have console access and pretty much the default configurations, just issue

cat /var/log/apache2/access_log | awk '{if ($9 == 403) print $1}'

in the cli.

127.0.0.1 - - [03/Nov/2014:18:45:21 +0100] "GET /forbidden/test.jpg HTTP/1.1" 403 

The first column is the IP, and the 9th (403) is the HTTP status. Each "column" is delimited by space.