On 5/25/05, PMilanese@xxxxxxxx <PMilanese@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Maxim- > > Depends on what you want, how much there is, and how fast you want it. > Oh.. Also depends on whether you want it to cost anything or not. > OK, fair enough. The server has a hit count of ~50MB/day for the access log. I do wish it to be a FreeSoftware/OpenSource solution - just makes me fell better. > If you want demographics and what-not, which are reliable (not whois > based), then go with something commercial since they generally maintain > some sort of demographic database. If you just want basic stats, look into > the opensource stuff. Not much demographics in my case, most of the hits are just from on location. > You might also find, if your hitcount is relatively low, that > outsourcing is the way to go. That involves an include which is generally > javascript, which runs on the client when they hit your site. Could you please explain what do you mean by outsourcing ? Is it "live counter", so that the user's browser goes to "check in" into some counter server that logs "a hit" ? If that is the case I'd rather not do this, I consider this an unneeded burden on the client. > I use Webtrends. I wrote something quite some time ago, but the hitcount > was too high to maintain real-time stats. It also got to be something that > I did not have time to maintain. With Webtrends (which I run on 2k3), I > have some rsyncing which runs from all web servers (including a farm, and > a few singles), to the logging box. The same code cleans old logs from the > servers, and gzips older log files on the log server (webtrends will unzip > and cache logs as it needs them). It costs some bucks, but I don't have to > look or touch for months at a time. And it's realtime to the halfhour. I'm > doing between 15-20M hits per day with it from various sources. > Looks nice, but commercial. Thanks for mentioning it though. > If your hitcount is low, you may be able to just do it on your server. > Perhaps setup a virtualhost to handle the interface as well (to the > products you mentioned). It may be better that way if you're not talking > gigs of logs. > This is the main issue, for a year I do expect at least a 5-6 gigs of logging. This is why I ask for a "recommend" test case. > There are a million ways to handle this, none of which are really worse > than another. You may never find anything that is perfect in your > scenario. I think that's why perl exists though. > > P > Yup. > -----Original Message----- > From: hq4ever@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:hq4ever@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 4:01 AM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [users@httpd] What software do you use for Apache log statistics > generation ? > > I'm swinging between Webalizer and AWStats. > What would you recommend ? > > Also, how do you do log parsing? Do you run the parser on the server, > or maybe you download the logs to another machine and do the parsing > there ? > Is the a test case for this or something ? > > I should mention that the web server itself is w2k3 running Apache 2.0.52. > But (of curse) Linux boxes are available too (though not on the same > subnet as the server). > > Tips / Comments are always welcome. > Thank you. > > -- Cheers, Maxim Vexler (hq4ever). Do u GNU ? --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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