Webalizer

Any Users?

[glengara]

My "host" has recently changed to this stats package, it's an improvement in some ways, but as they've set it up, it doesn't name the browser or referrer, which is a major pain.

Is there a way of configuring it so it can ID by name?

[starec]

Not sure I understand what you mean by "configuring it so it can ID by name" but if you want to log UA and referrer, check #1 FAQ of webalizer here:
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[4eyes]

I use webalizer for most of my customers. You can config it to show all of these, but my guess is that your host is running one installation for all his customers.

This would mean that you couldn't change the config yourself, you'd have to get him to do it as any changes would apply to all his customers.

[Marcia]

I just moved some sites to a virtual host that uses Webalizer, and yes, the same configuration for all. OK for some sites, not adequate for most as is. There could be improvement done, but I doubt they'd do it across the board.

[Duckula]

glengara: if you have shell access and that is a *nix box you can do 'man webalizer'. Then create a private directory to host the result pages. Locate the log file or pull it from where you would usually do, and run 'webalizer -o custom-output-directory logfile' and any other option that you would want. I have webalizer installed on my own box, so I can pull the log file from the remote server and process it locally.

[Marcia]

Duckula, what file format are your logfiles?

[chiyo]

our host provides analog reports, but you can use your own config files by placing them in a certain directory. Maybe that is possible with your provider for webalizer?

[Duckula]

I just pull the logs from the control panel, they are (I guess) standard apache log files. They look like:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [01/Mar/2002:12:00:00 -0500] "GET /foobar.html HTTP/1.0" 200 42 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)"

[starec]

webalizer first reads the conf file in the current directory, if not found, it takes the (default) /etc/webalizer.conf.
You can also specify the conf file location in the command line using the -c /.../webalizer.conf option.

That's if the problem is in conf file and not the log format...

[incywincy]

if you have telnet access you can set up a config file and specify all manner of control. then use cron to execute webalizer, at a specified time and frequency, using this config file.

i use webalizer not only to look at site traffic but i also run a separate instance to monitor googlebot's visits.

it is very flexible in that you can exclude agents (such as spiders, email harvesters, publishing tools etc) and also group referers together.

as already mentioned a lot of hosts use a template config file which is usually pretty useless.

[glengara]

My host has gone "virtual" , everything has changed, including static IPs. Obviously still in a state of flux, they're not responding to my queries on this.

The change in IP designation came as a shock, no notification; looks like another frustrating search for a decent host is on the cards.

[madcat]

if you have telnet access you can set up a config file and specify all manner of control. then use cron to execute webalizer, at a specified time and frequency, using this config file.

How can I get telnet access? If my hosting company uses Webalizer, and they don't have the settings the way I need them -- can I change them the way your talking about. My host tells me that I need to contact Webalizer :: That sounded very wrong to me.

--Thanks