Where does Apache HTTP server stores incoming request's data

Question

I have Apache HTTP server configured on Linux machine. I am sending requests to it from my Windows machine. I want to check the contents of incoming request. Where does it stores the data of incoming request? I think on Windows machine it uses C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp file for this. I have looked into /var/tmp folder on Linux machine but all files in that folder are empty.

I have a json web service developed using web2py framework and it is hosted on Apache HTTP server on Linux machine. It has get_tkn web service which I am trying to access from Python shell.

import jsonrpclib
import json

server_url = 'http://ip_address/appname/controllername/call/jsonrpc/'
api = jsonrpclib.Server(server_url)
tk_request = { 
                 'header' : { 
                                'a_id':u'f23ew343',\ 
                                'a_key':u'ldddk333k444d4',
                                'r_id':'12345',
                                't_id':'mec','uip_address':'someipaddr',
                                'tkn':''
                            },           
                 'body' : {'prms' :{}}
             }
api.get_tkn(tk_request)

Answer 1

It logs all the incoming requests or any errors that occur. To view the log live in your Linux terminal use the following command

tail -f /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts.access.log

The location and the name of the log file depends on your linux distribution. Under debian/ubuntu it is /var/log/apache2 and on centos/fedora it is /var/log/httpd folder. After the command above, send your requests from windows and view the live logs in your linux terminal.