Web site traffic analyser

[dcjones]

Hi all,

does anyone know where I can find good software scripts to analyse traffic - visitor to my site.

If you can help it would be useful.

Thanks in advance


Dereck

[pyro]

I've been happy with AWstats ( http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ ). Counts hits, unique visitors, logs browser used, OS, screen res, most viewed pages, etc...

[dcjones]

Hi there,

Thanks for this I will have a look at it.


Thank you

Regards

Dereck

[dcjones]

Hi Pyro,

Can you help me please. I have followed your advice and obtained a copy of awstats. I have installed it on my web server but I am having a prolem. When I execute the script
it loads the awstats page showing all the information on what it is reporting.

But, there is no information. I can olny think that it is not reading the log files from the server. I am not sure if I having configured the awstats.model.conf file correctly.

The path to the log files on the server is:

www.bytecsolutions.com/logs.

The awstats.model.conf file. I edited the file as per the instructions and saved it as awstats.bytecsolutions.com.conf and uploaded it to the web server. If have have time could you look at the attached file to see if you can spot a error I may have made.

When the script runs it does show Bytecsolutions in the top left cornor so I think I am half way there.


I thank you in advance.


Regards



Dereck

[dcjones]

Hi again,

I just looked at the file I attached, rubbish, so I am showing ot here, or a part of it.

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# MAIN SETUP SECTION (Required to make AWStats work)
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

# "LogFile" contains the web server logfile to analyze.
# Possible values: A full path, or a relative path from awstats.pl directory.
# Example: "/var/log/apache/access.log"
# Example: "../logs/mycombinedlog.log"
# You can also use tags in this filename if you need a dynamic file name
# depending on date or time (Replacement is made by AWStats at the beginning
# of its execution). This is available tags :
# %YYYY-n is replaced with 4 digits year we were n hours ago
# %YY-n is replaced with 2 digits year we were n hours ago
# %MM-n is replaced with month we were n hours ago
# %DD-n is replaced with day we were n hours ago
# %HH-n is replaced with hour we were n hours ago
# %NS-n is replaced with number of seconds at 00:00 since 1970
# %WM-n is replaced with the week number in month (1-5)
# %Wm-n is replaced with the week number in month (0-4)
# %WY-n is replaced with the week number in year (01-52)
# %Wy-n is replaced with the week number in year (00-51)
# %DW-n is replaced with the day number in week (1-7, 1=sunday)
# use n=24 if you need (1-7, 1=monday)
# %Dw-n is replaced with the day number in week (0-6, 0=sunday)
# use n=24 if you need (0-6, 0=monday)
# Use 0 for n if you need current year, month, day, hour...
# Example: "/var/log/access_log.%YYYY-0%MM-0%DD-0.log"
# Example: "C:/WINNT/system32/LogFiles/W3SVC1/ex%YY-24%MM-24%DD-24.log"
# You can also use a pipe if log file come from a pipe.
# Example: "gzip -d </var/log/apache/access.log.gz |"
#
LogFile="/logs/access.log"

# Enter here your log format (Must match your web server config. See setup
# instructions in documentation know how to configure your web server to have
# the required log format).
# Possible values: 1,2,3,4,5 or "your_own_personalized_log_format"
# 1 - Apache or Lotus Notes/Domino native combined log format (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format)
# 2 - IIS log format (W3C log format)
# 3 - Webstar native log format
# 4 - Apache or Squid native common log format (NCSA common/CLF log format)
# With LogFormat=4, some features (browsers, os, keywords...) can't work.
# 5 - ISA server native standard log format
# "your_own_personalized_log_format" = If your log is a personalized format,
# you must use the following syntax keys to define the log format string:
# %host Host client name or IP address
# %logname Authenticated login/user used on protected pages
# %time1 Date and time with format: [dd/mmm/yyyy:hh:mm:ss +0000]
# %time1b Date and time with format: [dd/mmm/yyyy:hh:mm:ss]
# %time2 Date and time with format: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
# %methodurl Method and URL with format: "GET /index.html HTTP/x.x"
# %methodurlnoprot Method and URL with format: "GET /index.html"
# %method Method with format: GET
# %url URL only with format: /index.html
# %query Query string (used by URLWithQuery option)
# %code Return code status (with format for web log: 999)
# %bytesd Size of document in bytes
# %refererquot Referer page with format: "http://from.com/from.htm"
# %referer Referer page with format: http://from.com/from.htm
# %uaquot User agent with format: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible, ...)"
# %ua User agent with format: Mozilla/4.0_(compatible...)
# %gzipin mod_gzip compression input bytes: In:XXX
# %gzipout mod_gzip compression output bytes & ratio: Out:YYY:ZZZpct.
# %gzipratio mod_gzip or mod_deflate compression ratio: ZZZpct.
# %email EMail sender (for mail log)
# %email_r EMail receiver (for mail log)
# %syslog Syslog-specific time and host stamp with format: Mon dd hh:mm:ss hostname
# %virtualname Web sever virtual hostname. Use this tag when same log
# file contains data of several virtual web servers. The
# SiteDomain will be used to filter the one you want.
# If your log format has some fields not included in this list, use
# %other Means another field not used
#
# Examples for Apache combined logs (following two examples are equivalent):
# LogFormat = 1
# LogFormat = "%host %other %logname %time1 %methodurl %code %bytesd %refererquot %uaquot"
#
# Examples for IIS (following two examples are equivalent):
# LogFormat = 2
# LogFormat = "%time2 %host %logname %method %url %code %bytesd %other %ua %referer"
#
LogFormat=1


# If your log field's separator is not a space, you can change this parameter.
# This parameter is not used if LogFormat is a predefined value (1,2,3,4,5,6)
# Example: " "
# Example: "\t"
# Example: "|"
# Default: " "
#
LogSeparator=" "


# "SiteDomain" must contain the main domain name, or the main intranet web
# server name, used to reach the web site.
# If you share the same log file for several virtual web servers, this
# parameter is used to tell AWStats to filter record that contains records for
# this virtual host name only (So check that this virtual hostname can be
# found in your log file and use a personalized log format that include the
# %virtualname tag).
# But for multi hosting a better solution is to have one log file for each
# virtual web server. In this case, this parameter is only used to generate
# full URL's links when ShowLinksOnUrl option is set to 1.
# If analysing mail log, enter here the domain name of mail server.
# Example: "myintranetserver"
# Example: "www.domain.com"
# Example: "ftp.domain.com"
# Example: "domain.com"
#
SiteDomain="bytecsolutions.com"


# Enter here all other possible domain names, addresses or virtual host
# aliases someone can use to access your site. Try to keep only the minimum
# number of possible names/addresses to have the best performances.
# You can repeat the "SiteDomain" value in this list.
# Use space between each value.
# This parameter is used to analyze referer field in log file and to help
# AWStats to know if a referer URL is a local URL of same site or an URL of
# another site.
# Example: "www.myserver.com x.y.z.w localhost 127.0.0.1"
#
HostAliases="www.bytecsolutions.com.com x.y.z.w localhost 127.0.0.1"


# If you want to have hosts reported by name instead of ip address, AWStats
# need to make reverse DNS lookups (if not already done in your log file).
# With DNSLookup to 0, all hosts will be reported by their IP addresses and
# not by the full hostname of visitors.
# If you want to set DNSLookup to 1, don't forget that this will reduce
# dramatically AWStats update process speed. Do not use on large web sites.
# Note: Reverse DNS lookup is done on IPv4 only.
# Note: Country detection can works without reverse DNS lookup if plugin
# 'geoip' is enabled (faster and more accurate than reverse DNS lookup).
# Possible values:
# 0 - No DNS Lookup
# 1 - DNS Lookup is fully enabled
# 2 - DNS Lookup is made only from static DNS cache file (if exists)
# Default: 2
#
DNSLookup=2


# When AWStats updates its statistics, it stores results of its analysis in
# files (AWStats database). All those files are written in the directory
# defined by the "DirData" parameter. Set this value to the directory where
# you want AWStats to save its database and working files into.
# Warning: If you want to be able to use the "AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser"
# feature (see later), you need "Write" permissions by web server user on this
# directory (and "Modify" for Windows NTFS file systems).
# Example: "/var/cache/awstats"
# Example: "../data"
# Example: "C:/awstats_data_dir"
# Default: "." (means same directory as awstats.pl)
#
DirData="."


# Relative or absolute web URL of your awstats.pl directory.
# This parameter is used only when AWStats is run from command line
# with -output option (to generate links in HTML reported page).
# Default: "/cgi-bin" (means awstats.pl is in "/mywwwroot/cgi-bin")
#
DirCgi="/cgi-bin"


# If AWStats used as a CGI, enter relative or absolute web URL of all icons
# subdirectories.
# If you build static reports ("... -output > outputpath/output.html"), enter
# path of icon directory relative to the directory outputpath.
# Example: "/icon"
# Example: "../icon"
# Default: "/icon" (means you must copy icon directories in "/mywwwroot/icon")
#
DirIcons="/icon"


# When this parameter is set to 1, AWStats add a button on report page to
# allow to "update" statistics from a web browser. Warning, when "update" is
# made from a browser, AWStats is ran as a CGI by the web server user defined
# in your web server (user "nobody" by default with Apache, "IUSR_XXX" with
# IIS), so the "DirData" directory and all already existing history files
# awstatsMMYYYY[.xxx].txt must be writable by this user. Change permissions if
# necessary to "Read/Write" (and "Modify" for Windows NTFS file systems).
# Warning: Update process can be long so you might experience "time out"
# browser errors if you don't launch AWStats enough frequently.
# When set to 0, update is only made when AWStats is ran from the command
# line interface (or a task scheduler).
# Possible values: 0 or 1
# Default: 0
#
AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser=0


Thanks


dereck

[dcjones]

Hi All,

Can anyone help with this problem


Thanks in advance


Dereck