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Hello,

I manged to get hiawatha to run on my FreeBSD 10 server but I cannot update anything in wordpress..
When I looked at the logs, I realized that they all created but they are completely empty..
Could you please tell me how I can find out whey the logs are no populated?

root@zion /# ll /var/log/hiawatha/
total 6
-rw-r-----  1 www  www  0 Dec  4 09:05 access.log
-rw-r-----  1 www  www  0 Dec  4 09:05 error.log
-rw-r-----  1 www  www  0 Dec  4 09:05 exploit.log
-rw-r-----  1 www  www  0 Dec  4 09:05 garbage.log
-rw-r-----  1 www  www  0 Dec  4 09:05 system.log
-rw-r-----  1 www  www  0 Dec  4 09:05 dupon.access.log
-rw-r-----  1 www  www  0 Dec  4 09:05 dupon.error.log

Thank you

Hiawatha version: v9.7
Operating System: FreeBSD 10

Hiawatha also running as user 'www'? Is the server receiving any HTTP requests? Does the hostname you are using in your URL resolve to the right IP address?

Hi Hugo,

That was an impressive response time.. Thank you

I can access the webpages with no problem. I can also login to mysite.com/wp-admin
The only issue that I have is that I cannot update and plugin or the wordpreess core file...
The www user is set in the config file
/usr/local/etc/hiawatha/hiawatha.conf

# Hiawatha main configuration file
#

# GENERAL SETTINGS
#
ServerId = www
ConnectionsTotal = 1000
ConnectionsPerIP = 10 
SystemLogfile  = /var/log/hiawatha/system.log
GarbageLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/garbage.log
ExploitLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/exploit.log

LogFormat = extended
ServerString = Apache
CGIwrapper = /usr/local/sbin/cgi-wrapper

# BINDING SETTINGS
# A binding is where a client can connect to.
#
Binding {
	Port = 80
#	Interface = 192.168.1.125
	MaxKeepAlive = 30
	TimeForRequest = 3,20
}
#
#Binding {
#	Port = 443
#	Interface = ::1
#	MaxKeepAlive = 30
#	TimeForRequest = 3,20
#	SSLcertFile = hiawatha.pem
#}


# BANNING SETTINGS
# Deny service to clients who misbehave.
#
BanOnGarbage = 300
BanOnMaxPerIP = 60
BanOnMaxReqSize = 300
KickOnBan = yes
RebanDuringBan = yes
BanOnDeniedBody = 300
BanOnSQLi = 300
BanOnFlooding = 10/1:15
BanOnInvalidURL = 300
BanOnWrongPassword = 3:300
BanlistMask = allow 82.31.44.171, allow 213.146.159.254, deny 192.168.1.0/24, deny 127.0.0.1
ReconnectDelay = 3

# COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE (CGI) SETTINGS
# These settings can be used to run CGI applications.
#
#CGIhandler = /usr/local/bin/perl:pl
CGIhandler = /usr/local/bin/php-cgi:php
#CGIhandler = /usr/local/bin/python:py
#CGIhandler = /usr/local/bin/ruby:rb
#CGIhandler = /usr/local/bin/ssi-cgi:shtml
#CGIextension = cgi
#
FastCGIserver {
	FastCGIid = PHP5
	#ConnectTo = 127.0.0.1:2005
        ConnectTo = /var/run/php-fpm.sock
	Extension = php
	SessionTimeout = 30
}


# URL TOOLKIT
# This URL toolkit rule was made for the Banshee PHP framework, which
# can be downloaded from http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/banshee
#
#UrlToolkit {
#	ToolkitID = banshee
#	RequestURI isfile Return
#	Match ^/(css|files|images|js|slimstat)($|/) Return
#	Match ^/(favicon.ico|robots.txt|sitemap.xml)$ Return
#	Match .*\?(.*) Rewrite /index.php?$1
#	Match .* Rewrite /index.php
#}

UrlToolkit {
	ToolkitID = block_bots
	Header User-Agent Googlebot DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent twiceler DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent MSNBot DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent yahoo DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent BaiDuSpider DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent Ask DenyAccess
#	Header User-Agent Yahoo! Slurp DenyAccess
#	Header User-Agent Sogou web spider DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent Sogou-Test-Spider DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent Baiduspider+ DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent Yandex DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent UniversalFeedParser DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent Mediapartners-Google DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent Sosospider+ DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent YoudaoBot DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent ParchBot DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent Curl DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent msnbot DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent NaverBot DenyAccess
	Header User-Agent taptubot DenyAccess
}

# DEFAULT WEBSITE
# It is wise to use your IP address as the hostname of the default website
# and give it a blank webpage. By doing so, automated webscanners won't find
# your possible vulnerable website.
#
Hostname = 127.0.0.1
WebsiteRoot = /usr/local/www/hiawatha
StartFile = index.html
AccessLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/access.log
ErrorLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/error.log
#ErrorHandler = 404:/error.cgi
Include enable-sites/

# VIRTUAL HOSTS
# Use a VirtualHost section to declare the websites you want to host.
#
#VirtualHost {
#	Hostname = www.my-domain.com
#	WebsiteRoot = /var/www/my-domain/public
#	StartFile = index.php
#	AccessLogfile = /var/www/my-domain/log/access.log
#	ErrorLogfile = /var/www/my-domain/log/error.log
#	TimeForCGI = 5
#	UseFastCGI = PHP5
#	UseToolkit = banshee
#}


# DIRECTORY SETTINGS
# You can specify some settings per directory.
#
#Directory {
#	Path = /home/baduser
#	ExecuteCGI = no
#	UploadSpeed = 10,2
#}

For Wordpress questions, please visit the Wordpress website. I don't know much about that.

Hugo,

My question isn't about wordpress by hiawatha..
Maybe I didn't explained my problem properly..
Nginx for example populate lines in the the access.log file like the following

213.146.159.254 - - [04/Dec/2014:12:00:02 +0000] "GET /wp-content/plugins/themefuse-maintenance-mode/images/tabs_t.png HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://mysite.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"
213.146.159.254 - - [04/Dec/2014:12:00:02 +0000] "GET /wp-content/plugins/themefuse-maintenance-mode/css/bebasneue-webfont.ttf HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://mysite.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"
213.146.159.254 - - [04/Dec/2014:12:00:02 +0000] "GET /wp-content/plugins/themefuse-maintenance-mode/images/mail.png HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://mysite.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"
213.146.159.254 - - [04/Dec/2014:12:00:02 +0000] "GET /wp-content/plugins/themefuse-maintenance-mode/images/tabs_bottom_container_bg.png HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://mysite.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"
213.146.159.254 - - [04/Dec/2014:12:00:02 +0000] "GET /wp-content/plugins/themefuse-maintenance-mode/images/message_active.png HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://mysite.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"

and the error then contain all the error messages....

What I am saying is that all the log file created in /var/log/hiawatha/* are ALL empty.
If I delete the file, the when I restart Hiawatha, the file are created agin but still remian empty.

I understand that the error file is empty is I have no problem with the system but I would expect the access file to be full of lines.

In what circumstances, does the files get populated in Hiawatha?

Thank you

The logfiles get populated when something happens. The system.log should at least contain a 'Hiawatha started' message. I have no idea why it doesn't. Does this have something to do with some sort of security thing in FreeBSD?

I don't think so because when using Nginx I don't have this issue.
The system.log file is completely blank. I have an 'Hiawatha started' message.
Do you think I should move this problem to the FreeBSD forum?
My problem is that not many people on the FreeBSD forum know much about Hiawatha

I've had some questions about this kind of issue before. In all cases the OS was the cause of the issue. I can't explain why the system.log is empty. That shouldn't happen. The FreeBSD forum might also be a good place to ask for help. I don't know what goes wrong.

Hi Hugo,

Thank you for the reply.
I'll post the problem on the FreeBSD forum and if I get a solution, I will update this forum for future reference.

Before going to the FreeBSD forum, I updated Hiawatha from v9.7 to v9.8 using portmaster and magic..
I now have some data in my log files..