Strange apache logs

[Heiko Wundram (Beenic)]

Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 13:39:04 schrieb Dragan Jovelic:
> Couple of days ago I moved one web (PHP) application to new server
> running FreeBSD 6.2, with apache 2.2.8 installed. Everything is fine,
>
> except I have in httpd access_log lot of requests like this:
> ::1 - - [06/Feb/2008:13:43:58 -0500] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -
> ::1 - - [06/Feb/2008:13:43:59 -0500] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -
> ::1 - - [06/Feb/2008:13:44:00 -0500] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -
>
> They are appearing all the time (looks like one request every second).
>
> <snip>

That's a request from localhost to localhost (except that Apache is being 
connected to on the IPv6 localhost address and not on the IPv4 localhost of 
127.0.0.1). Check whether you have some monitoring tool (which is the only 
thing I can think of that would query the server once a second) running on 
the server, which check whether Apache is up.

-- 
Heiko Wundram
Product & Application Development