Logging referrals?

Need a pointer in the right direction

[karmov]

I keep hearing everyone talking about their referrals and how they're up/down or whatever. Where do these referals come from? How are they logged? By refferals I'm specifically thinking of visitor A got to my site from a link on Site B or search Engine C. How do I get this information? I appologise if this has been asked and answered, but I've been searching for an hour and can't seem to find the answer to my question.

[peewhy]

You may have access to your logfiles, check with your host.

I'll sticky you a long list of software programs, some are free, some paid for, but they'll help analyse your logfiles so you can see referals, keywords, SE's etc etc.

Peter

[peewhy]

If anyone else would like a long list of logfile analyser software - give me a shout.

[karmov]

I run my own box so I have access to my logs but there's nothing in there in terms of where people came *from*. That's what I'm trying to find out. Thanks for the list though Peewhy.

[karmov]

I am running a pretty stock apache install so if there's a module or an htconf change or something that needs to be done to get this info, that might be the help I need.

Here's an example of a log entry:

handsome-pete.xxxx.xxxx. - - [20/Jun/2003:10:35:04 -0300] "GET /faq/ HTTP/1.1" 200 10668

[sugarkane]

Look for the line 'CustomLog logs/access_log' (or similiar) in your conf files, and change it to 'CustomLog logs/access_log combined' to have the referrer information included in the logs.

[karmov]

Perfect :) Thank you so very much. That was the information I was missing. It's now logging everything I need it to. Thanks again.