Add per-vhost CustomLog directives; document access-log root cause
Real root cause turned out to differ from the original TODO: there was no broken global CustomLog, mod_vhost_combined was already logging every vhost without its own CustomLog into other_vhosts_access.log. Added a dedicated CustomLog per real site anyway for easier incident review, verified live with curl against all 7 domains after reload. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -380,3 +380,5 @@ that key file, not group membership, since the `bind` group also owns
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`rndc.key` — and (b) that access logging for every real vhost on this
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host is currently a no-op, and (c) that the dyndns app has no real
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per-user auth binding. (b) and (c) are left open — see `TODO.md`.)
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(b) fixed 2026-07-25 — see `TODO.md` for the root cause and the
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per-vhost `CustomLog` fix; (c) remains open.
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@@ -16,22 +16,32 @@ Nothing here is urgent; all are low-risk, no-downtime changes.
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tokens, or add a static host-allowlist per `.htpasswd` user in the
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PHP.
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- [ ] **dyndns/default-vhost access logging is a no-op** — found
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2026-07-20, while investigating the command injection below.
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- [x] **dyndns/default-vhost access logging is a no-op** — done 2026-07-25
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found 2026-07-20 while investigating the command injection below.
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`dyndns.jayfield.org`, `jayfield.org`, `www.jayfield.org`,
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`mail.jayfield.org`, `web.jayfield.org`, and `cloud.jayfield.org`
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have no `CustomLog` directive of their own, so requests to them
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should fall back to the global `CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log`
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in `apache2.conf` — but that file had 0 lines when checked. Only
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`default-ssl.conf`/`000-default.conf` explicitly set `CustomLog`.
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Net effect: there's currently no access-log trail for any real
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vhost on this host, which is exactly the evidence that would be
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needed to rule out past abuse of things like the dyndns injection
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above. Needs root-causing (global `CustomLog` not actually wired up
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to these vhosts? logs going somewhere else? log rotation wiping it
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right before checks?) and likely a per-vhost `CustomLog` added to
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each site, matching the `default-ssl.conf`/`000-default.conf`
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pattern.
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had no `CustomLog` directive of their own, and `access.log` (only
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written by `default-ssl.conf`/`000-default.conf`) had 0-8 lines —
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looking like no real vhost was being logged at all.
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Root cause (2026-07-25 re-check): the fallback assumption was wrong.
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There's no global `CustomLog access.log` in `apache2.conf`; instead
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`conf-enabled/other-vhosts-access-log.conf` enables `mod_vhost_combined`,
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which was already writing every vhost-without-its-own-`CustomLog`'s
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traffic to `/var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log` (5,432 lines,
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confirmed real traffic incl. bot scans against `cloud.jayfield.org`).
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So requests were never actually un-logged — just commingled in one
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shared, harder-to-grep file instead of `access.log`.
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Fixed anyway, since a dedicated per-site log remains the better
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end state for incident review: added an explicit
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`CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/<site>_access.log combined` to every
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`<VirtualHost>` block for `dyndns`, `jayfield.org`, `www`, `mail`,
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`web`, `cloud`, and `portainer` (the `:80` and `:443`/`le-ssl` blocks
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of each site share one log file). Configs backed up to
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`/root/removed-configs-backup/vhost-customlog-20260725203959/`.
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`/etc/logrotate.d/apache2` already globs `*.log`, so no logrotate
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change needed. Validated with `apache2ctl configtest`, applied via
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`systemctl reload apache2`, verified live with `curl` against all 7
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domains and confirmed each new `<site>_access.log` recorded the hit.
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- [x] **OS command injection in the dyndns update scripts** — done 2026-07-20
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`/var/www/dyndns/nsupdate.php`, `nsupdate_ipv4.php`, and
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