Re: generalInfo

Hello everybody,

> > Because of the fact, that there are so many posts related to the Apache Web
> > Server, I decided to ask you the following question: J
> >
> > I'm using Apache on Solaris and I want to make a usage statistics. (Which
> > files were accessed to day / last moth / last year?) 
> >
> > Does Apache have any APIs (some kind of performance objects, like the MS Web
> > server has, so I can easily find those information I need) or do I have to
> > analyze (parse) the log file?
> >
> > In the web I've just found the -log-file-parsing-solution advice.
> >
> >
> >
> > Btw., what visualization tool do you recommend me for making graphs out of
> > the data I get from the Apache log parsing? (So I can use them in a web
> > page)
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > Jan Ciesko
> > Microsoft Student Partner @ FAU - Erlangen
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > E-Mail: jan.ciesko@informatik.stud.uni-erlangen.de 
> >
> >    
I have used both awstats and webalizer. Webalizer is probably more
secure out of the gate, but awstats creates a nicer stats page and can
be used securely. I installed it into /usr/local/ and then created a
script to run via cron job and build a static page twice a day for
checking stats like:
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#!/bin/bash

perl /usr/local/awstats/awstats.pl -config=<your_domain> -update

perl /usr/local/awstats/awstats.pl -config=<your_domain> -output
-staticlinks > \
       /root/web/stats.html
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That will build a page (stats.html) in /root/web/ for later viewing. It
was an easy way around the security concerns I have seen when running
awstats CGI.

-Sean