During the reconnaissance phase, you are limited to publicly available information. To check whether the target organization stores raw Apache access logs in web-accessible directories, which Google search string would most precisely reveal such log files hosted under the company's primary domain example.com?
The most accurate way to look for downloadable Apache log files is to combine the site: operator, which confines results to the target domain, with inurl: to hunt for the specific filename and filetype: (or its synonym ext:) to restrict results to files that actually end with the .log extension. This triple filter dramatically narrows hits to URLs like https://example.com/somepath/access.log that would expose raw logging data. The other queries are either missing the site restriction (risking results from other domains), rely on cached copies that may not exist, or use operators such as link: and related: that do not search the target site's own content, so they are far less effective for uncovering log files on the organization's servers.
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