Overview

The 37signals team created Campfire in 2006 as an early pioneer of browser chat, eventually folded it into Basecamp, and revived it in 2024 under its ONCE initiative. Built to challenge recurring per-user subscriptions, the project was subsequently open-sourced to demonstrate that team messaging can run smoothly from a single host. Today it provides an uncluttered, self-hosted chat environment centered on ownership and operational control.

Why Campfire instead of Slack

Slack builds around a vast third-party marketplace with thousands of prebuilt connectors for Jira, GitHub, and automated workflows. Campfire rejects that app store model in favor of an austere, webhook-driven design. Rather than managing OAuth permissions and routing team data through external SaaS middleware, Campfire provides a minimalist HTTP API. Engineers configure incoming and outgoing webhooks where bots receive JSON payloads on user mentions and post plain text responses directly into designated rooms.

This stripped-down approach simplifies maintenance, but it places integration work on internal teams. There is no directory of click-to-install bots or native voice huddles; connecting external monitors requires custom scripts or the companion campfire-bot-kit utility. Switching from Slack also introduces friction because Campfire rejects nested message threads for a single chronological room feed, and it offers no automated import tool for past message archives. For organizations needing only build alerts and deployment notifications, Campfire removes runaway per-seat invoices while keeping webhook traffic entirely on company infrastructure.

What it does well

Single-container deployment: Runs Rails, Thruster, background queues, and an SQLite database in one Docker image without separate Redis or PostgreSQL services.
Zero per-seat licensing: Allows teams to invite staff, contractors, and guests into private or public rooms without per-user subscription fees.
Clean webhook protocol: Uses a lightweight REST endpoint and outbound JSON payloads so ops leads can wire build notifications and monitoring alerts in minutes.
Minimal resource footprint: Handles hundreds of active chatters on a 2 GB virtual machine, keeping hosting expenses negligible.
Air-gapped deployment readiness: Operates without outbound cloud dependencies, making it suitable for secure client enclaves and offline internal networks.

campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.081383467Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.081199 #64] ERROR -- : [3c0c8a5a-d782-44c1-8f26-0b392dfd69f3] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.081384092Z [3c0c8a5a-d782-44c1-8f26-0b392dfd69f3] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/phpunit/phpunit/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.081384759Z [3c0c8a5a-d782-44c1-8f26-0b392dfd69f3] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.081385259Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.081284 #58] ERROR -- : [13a0e6a4-ac4d-4d1b-9fd5-add679fca06f] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.081385800Z [13a0e6a4-ac4d-4d1b-9fd5-add679fca06f] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/phpunit/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.081386467Z [13a0e6a4-ac4d-4d1b-9fd5-add679fca06f] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.081480800Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.08147005Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/phpunit/phpunit/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":0,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56148","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Debian; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.081529342Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.0815133Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/phpunit/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":0,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56166","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Kubuntu; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.081958300Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.081916 #58] INFO -- : [5f2d28dc-b69c-4b9e-8381-64050329243b] Started GET "/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.082113884Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.082073 #58] ERROR -- : [5f2d28dc-b69c-4b9e-8381-64050329243b] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.082116967Z [5f2d28dc-b69c-4b9e-8381-64050329243b] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.082117925Z [5f2d28dc-b69c-4b9e-8381-64050329243b] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.082336717Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.0822388Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":0,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56148","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Fedora; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.082529384Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.082503 #64] INFO -- : [d36c7572-e14c-4de5-9eaa-31c66cbaa07e] Started GET "/lib/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.082690259Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.082665 #64] ERROR -- : [d36c7572-e14c-4de5-9eaa-31c66cbaa07e] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.082691509Z [d36c7572-e14c-4de5-9eaa-31c66cbaa07e] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/lib/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.082692175Z [d36c7572-e14c-4de5-9eaa-31c66cbaa07e] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.082806884Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.082782 #58] INFO -- : [38dc7fdb-0bfe-4363-a9fb-4ba8d0adbe21] Started GET "/phpunit/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.082933759Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.082913 #58] ERROR -- : [38dc7fdb-0bfe-4363-a9fb-4ba8d0adbe21] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.082934884Z [38dc7fdb-0bfe-4363-a9fb-4ba8d0adbe21] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/phpunit/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.082935550Z [38dc7fdb-0bfe-4363-a9fb-4ba8d0adbe21] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.083098134Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.083081217Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/phpunit/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":0,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56148","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (ZZ; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.083527175Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.083410 #58] INFO -- : [4f3d4cf3-ad24-4335-959f-8960db6d94b2] Started GET "/lib/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.083591592Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.083553 #58] ERROR -- : [4f3d4cf3-ad24-4335-959f-8960db6d94b2] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.083593925Z [4f3d4cf3-ad24-4335-959f-8960db6d94b2] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/lib/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.083594675Z [4f3d4cf3-ad24-4335-959f-8960db6d94b2] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.083912509Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.083859717Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/lib/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":1,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56166","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.181 Safari/537.36","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.083934134Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.083829259Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/lib/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":0,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56148","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 13_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1 Safari/605.1.15","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.084441634Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.084362 #64] INFO -- : [83c1dcd2-a44d-46ac-a5b4-d29974e089a6] Started GET "/lib/phpunit/phpunit/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.084445134Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.084415 #58] INFO -- : [a2e61eff-d56c-4a59-b980-b5b4dfa6c3ca] Started GET "/lib/phpunit/phpunit/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.084628759Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.084594 #58] ERROR -- : [a2e61eff-d56c-4a59-b980-b5b4dfa6c3ca] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.084632425Z [a2e61eff-d56c-4a59-b980-b5b4dfa6c3ca] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/lib/phpunit/phpunit/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.084633300Z [a2e61eff-d56c-4a59-b980-b5b4dfa6c3ca] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.084672884Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.084658 #64] ERROR -- : [83c1dcd2-a44d-46ac-a5b4-d29974e089a6] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.084674467Z [83c1dcd2-a44d-46ac-a5b4-d29974e089a6] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/lib/phpunit/phpunit/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.084675134Z [83c1dcd2-a44d-46ac-a5b4-d29974e089a6] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.084898009Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.084874675Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/lib/phpunit/phpunit/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":0,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56148","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Knoppix; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.084935759Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.08490655Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/lib/phpunit/phpunit/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":0,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56166","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.75 Safari/537.36","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.085859259Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.085493 #64] INFO -- : [e43d8082-3917-4fc9-95cf-866275ef2b20] Started GET "/lib/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.085863800Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.085520 #58] INFO -- : [ad486829-d0cd-4251-bbb6-3a050679d47f] Started GET "/lib/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.085864634Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.085683 #64] ERROR -- : [e43d8082-3917-4fc9-95cf-866275ef2b20] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.085865259Z [e43d8082-3917-4fc9-95cf-866275ef2b20] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/lib/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.085865925Z [e43d8082-3917-4fc9-95cf-866275ef2b20] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.085866425Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.085710 #58] ERROR -- : [ad486829-d0cd-4251-bbb6-3a050679d47f] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.085866967Z [ad486829-d0cd-4251-bbb6-3a050679d47f] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/lib/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.085867592Z [ad486829-d0cd-4251-bbb6-3a050679d47f] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.085994759Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.08597605Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/lib/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":0,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; 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charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56166","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.087888509Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.087757 #58] INFO -- : [8adf7617-f931-451f-8a90-fcd77094fc1d] Started GET "/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.087975425Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.087957 #58] ERROR -- : [8adf7617-f931-451f-8a90-fcd77094fc1d] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.087977342Z [8adf7617-f931-451f-8a90-fcd77094fc1d] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.087978134Z [8adf7617-f931-451f-8a90-fcd77094fc1d] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.087978759Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.08795855Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/lib/phpunit/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":1,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56148","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_6_6; de) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4.2 Safari/605.1.15","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.088400675Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.08833955Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":0,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56166","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; ClaudeBot/1.0; [email protected])","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.089903425Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.088565 #64] INFO -- : [32eee5b8-90ef-48ea-9c6e-4a3d4136ae39] Started GET "/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.089907800Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.088766 #64] ERROR -- : [32eee5b8-90ef-48ea-9c6e-4a3d4136ae39] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.089908509Z [32eee5b8-90ef-48ea-9c6e-4a3d4136ae39] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.089914050Z [32eee5b8-90ef-48ea-9c6e-4a3d4136ae39] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.089914759Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.089031842Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":0,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56148","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:141.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/141.0","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.089916134Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.089513 #64] INFO -- : [4f576a80-f46d-4336-b650-ee9724a8e01b] Started GET "/yii/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.089916759Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.089676 #64] ERROR -- : [4f576a80-f46d-4336-b650-ee9724a8e01b] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.089917467Z [4f576a80-f46d-4336-b650-ee9724a8e01b] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/yii/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.089918092Z [4f576a80-f46d-4336-b650-ee9724a8e01b] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.089918592Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.089866634Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/yii/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":0,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56148","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (SS; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.090175675Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.090142 #58] INFO -- : [131e83ec-ea68-43f4-bc70-d5a36bd335c2] Started GET "/yii/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.090323175Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.090301 #58] ERROR -- : [131e83ec-ea68-43f4-bc70-d5a36bd335c2] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.090325425Z [131e83ec-ea68-43f4-bc70-d5a36bd335c2] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/yii/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.090326259Z [131e83ec-ea68-43f4-bc70-d5a36bd335c2] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.090687884Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.09066355Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/yii/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":1,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56166","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.090798259Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.090777 #58] INFO -- : [03343bce-195e-42ef-a822-5b2dd1a07c37] Started GET "/laravel/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.091291634Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.091248 #64] INFO -- : [37183168-77ba-463a-83ab-6bf46f4de0ec] Started GET "/laravel/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.091474467Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.091447 #64] ERROR -- : [37183168-77ba-463a-83ab-6bf46f4de0ec] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.091476509Z [37183168-77ba-463a-83ab-6bf46f4de0ec] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/laravel/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.091477300Z [37183168-77ba-463a-83ab-6bf46f4de0ec] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.091681425Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.091641842Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/laravel/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":0,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56166","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh, Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0 Safari/605.1.15","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.093807800Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.093315 #58] ERROR -- : [03343bce-195e-42ef-a822-5b2dd1a07c37] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.093813967Z [03343bce-195e-42ef-a822-5b2dd1a07c37] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/laravel/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.093814967Z [03343bce-195e-42ef-a822-5b2dd1a07c37] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.093815592Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.093369 #64] INFO -- : [205e9357-4347-4360-9a2e-2e1428671699] Started GET "/laravel52/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.093816342Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.093578 #64] ERROR -- : [205e9357-4347-4360-9a2e-2e1428671699] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.093816884Z [205e9357-4347-4360-9a2e-2e1428671699] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/laravel52/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.093817550Z [205e9357-4347-4360-9a2e-2e1428671699] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.094346300Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.094168884Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/laravel52/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":2,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56166","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:1.9.7.20) Gecko/ Firefox/3.6.5","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.094365050Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.094197759Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/laravel/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":3,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56148","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/117.0","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.094983134Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.094903 #64] INFO -- : [0dee1ee1-6d0c-47e6-b6d1-5f7b9c940d46] Started GET "/laravel52/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.095377009Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.095309 #64] ERROR -- : [0dee1ee1-6d0c-47e6-b6d1-5f7b9c940d46] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.095385384Z [0dee1ee1-6d0c-47e6-b6d1-5f7b9c940d46] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/laravel52/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.095386300Z [0dee1ee1-6d0c-47e6-b6d1-5f7b9c940d46] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.095831300Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.095780175Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/laravel52/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":1,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56148","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.096087550Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.095988 #58] INFO -- : [4f5a3da2-e319-41a4-9792-02a8784355a3] Started GET "/lib/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.096687925Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.096625 #58] ERROR -- : [4f5a3da2-e319-41a4-9792-02a8784355a3] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.096698800Z [4f5a3da2-e319-41a4-9792-02a8784355a3] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/lib/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.096700217Z [4f5a3da2-e319-41a4-9792-02a8784355a3] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.096785259Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.096745 #64] INFO -- : [8ea2e305-7eba-4ec0-b5fc-aab67e9aa045] Started GET "/lib/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.097281842Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.097194 #64] ERROR -- : [8ea2e305-7eba-4ec0-b5fc-aab67e9aa045] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.097288592Z [8ea2e305-7eba-4ec0-b5fc-aab67e9aa045] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/lib/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.097289759Z [8ea2e305-7eba-4ec0-b5fc-aab67e9aa045] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.097450217Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.0972583Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/lib/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":2,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56210","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.098206884Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.098072592Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/lib/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":1,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56148","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.1 Safari/605.1.15","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.098555967Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.098500 #58] INFO -- : [7f5b0d51-d907-4814-b9b5-7a3c9b55d100] Started GET "/zend/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.099289050Z I, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.098633 #64] INFO -- : [c6ca73d6-8bb5-455a-b3d5-93cc89f8379f] Started GET "/zend/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php" for 192.168.65.123 at 2026-11-03 03:17:05 +0000 campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.099297634Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.098990 #58] ERROR -- : [7f5b0d51-d907-4814-b9b5-7a3c9b55d100] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.099298342Z [7f5b0d51-d907-4814-b9b5-7a3c9b55d100] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/zend/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.099299134Z [7f5b0d51-d907-4814-b9b5-7a3c9b55d100] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.099583884Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.09935805Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/zend/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":1,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56148","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.099773134Z E, [2026-11-03T03:17:05.099732 #64] ERROR -- : [c6ca73d6-8bb5-455a-b3d5-93cc89f8379f] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.099774925Z [c6ca73d6-8bb5-455a-b3d5-93cc89f8379f] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/zend/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"): campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.099775634Z [c6ca73d6-8bb5-455a-b3d5-93cc89f8379f] campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.100149009Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.100056634Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/zend/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php","status":404,"dur":2,"method":"GET","req_content_length":34,"req_content_type":"text/html","resp_content_length":1565,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","remote_addr":"192.168.65.123:56210","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:05.376526717Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:05.376465092Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/up","status":200,"dur":5,"method":"GET","req_content_length":0,"req_content_type":"","resp_content_length":73,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=utf-8","remote_addr":"[::1]:34446","user_agent":"curl/8.14.1","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"} campfire-1 | 2026-11-03T03:17:10.433518970Z {"time":"2026-11-03T03:17:10.43345347Z","level":"INFO","msg":"Request","path":"/up","status":200,"dur":2,"method":"GET","req_content_length":0,"req_content_type":"","resp_content_length":73,"resp_content_type":"text/html; charset=utf-8","remote_addr":"[::1]:34448","user_agent":"curl/8.14.1","cache":"miss","query":"","proto":"HTTP/1.1"}

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